A Carolina-blue coup …
Heads were rolling Thursday in Chapel Hill. UNC football coach Butch Davis had been dismissed Wednesday in the wake of a year long NCAA investigation of the school’s football
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A mixed review for Tuesday’s legislative session …
The conservative majority in the state legislature continued their beatdown of Madame Governor in Tuesday’s business — overriding her vetoes of bills limiting the payment of unemployment benefits and installing
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YES, there IS life AFTER government funding …
The recently passed state budget cut out funding for the North Carolina Governor’s School, and The Left quickly pounced on that as another piece of evidence of how conservatives want to hurt
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The Left frets over debt ceiling …
The N&O reported this morning on a “non-partisan” discussion on the federal debt ceiling debate, which was hosted by Democrat U.S. Senator Kay Hagan and held in The People’s Republic
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No belching after dark ….
The Boone, North Carolina city council is apparently BEGGING to be sued on constitutional grounds. The Associated Press is reporting on changes to the North Carolina mountain town’s noise ordinance
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And the beatdown goes on ….
(No that’s not me misquoting some famous song lyrics by The Whispers. Or was it Sonny & Cher ?) We’re talking about the action today at the legislative building in
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A twisted definition of ‘success’
We in Moore County just received news that only THREE of our 22 county schools achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status under the federal No Child Left Behind Law. …
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Look at me! I’m on TV !!!
Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning, Jr. is quite passionate about educating North Carolina’s children. He is so passionate about it that he often tiptoes up to the line,
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McIntyre: I’m running in NC-7 regardless of final map
Congressman Mike McIntyre has said publicly that he plans to run for reelection to his 7th district seat regardless of what the final redistricting map looks like. Two maps have
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Audit raises questions about NC public schools’ use of federal stimulus money
Amid all of the leftist sobbing about mean Republicans cutting school budgets, causing teacher assistants to lose their jobs (and, of course, kids to get dumber), an audit of the
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