Tag: Moore County

Moore County: STILL not in 2nd Congressional District ???

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The primary for U.S. House is one month away. The local and state boards of elections tell us that Moore County is NOW in the Second Congressional District. But U.S.

Pinehurst: The “importance” of historic landmark status

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Pinehurst village council is looking to develop, renovate, and update the area in and around historic downtown Pinehurst. The downtown area has historic status awarded by The National Park

Moore County Democrat chairman needs a lesson on civility, himself

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s interesting to see the chairman of Moore County’s “small-enough-to-fit-in-a-phone-booth” Democrat Party lecturing Rush Limbaugh AND Moore County GOP Chairman Bob Levy — one of the nicest guys you’ll ever

NC Senate GOP candidate Marcum publicly endorsed a Democrat in 2010

Posted on March 15, 2012March 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Pinehurst’s John Marcum is one of three GOP candidates seeking the district 29 NC Senate seat this year. Marcum is working hard to convince

Marcum vs. Moore Republican Women: Is The Fix IN on NC Senate race?

Posted on March 15, 2012March 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Pinehurst’s John Marcum is taking the Moore County Republican establishment to task. Marcum, a GOP candidate in the May primary for the NC Senate district 29

Amendment One: Leftist snobbery on display

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Steve Bouser, the opinion editor at our Nobel Prize-nominated thrice weekly local paper here in Moore County, is at it again. He’ll tell you he worked for

Renee Ellmers: live and in living color

Posted on March 11, 2012March 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

One of the first people I bumped into at Saturday’s Moore GOP event was our new Member of Congress, Renee Ellmers of Dunn. Ellmers won a close race

The cost of county government in North Carolina

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The John Locke Foundation in Raleigh has put together a fascinating report on the cost of governing at the local level in The Tar

NYC direct flights in the cards for Moore County Airport?

Posted on March 6, 2012March 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I had an interesting discussion the other day with a local business community mover-and-shaker who is also in-the-know on economic development. Our subject turned to Moore County’s Airport and the

Cops to focus on catching crooks, bakers to focus on making bread, and new schools chief to focus on literacy

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Apparently, The Fayetteville Observer thinks it is newsworthy that the new Moore County Schools superintendent is going to focus on ‘literacy.’ Um — what ELSE should he be