Where’s Walter? NC’s barely-there Lt. Governor
Is it just me, or did Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton simply vanish after the 2008 elections? This guy has got to be one of the most low-key statewide politicos we’ve
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Dems & media pals tossing Bev under the bus?
The N&O has been salivating lately over the possibility of state Rep. Bill Faison(D), who represents the Chapel Hill-Carrboro crowd in the House, challenging Boss Bev’s
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Lay off Small Business
The title of this post is the same as the title for an excellent, thought-provoking op-ed a Moore County small business owner penned in a recent
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BarryO invades North Carolina AGAIN (Where’s Bev?)
We didn’t ask for it, but we got it ANYWAY. BarryO is rolling across the western end of our lovely state with his gas-guzzling, carbon-footprint-expanding bus
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Ellmers looking weak in congressional money chase
The most recent round of campaign finance reports indicate a weak showing for North Carolina’s freshman U.S. Rep Renee Ellmers (R-Dunn). Ellmers, representing the state’s Second District (which should include
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Oh look, dear. A head on a stick …
(Yes, that is a severed head on a pike at the Occupy Wall Street ‘event’ in NYC. More specifically, it is an effigy of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s
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Alleged MSM trying to take Tillis to the woodshed
Our state’s alleged mainstream media (MSM) has successfully swept under the rug Boss Bev’s rant (and the supporting audio tape) about suspending elections. Now, they are focused on beating
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Environmentalists: Just say NO, NO, No, No, and NO
Environmentalists LOVE the word NO. They like to tell us NO, you can’t build that house or that office building or that church or that shopping center. They like to
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Southern Pines 2011: Chris Smithson, The Sierra Club, and ‘Cool Cities’
Once again, Google is an amazing tool to supplement my election coverage. I found the following post, dated July 23, 2007 on the blog for the North Carolina
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NCDOT board: More trouble than it’s worth
In this age of dwindling tax revenue and budgets drowning in red ink, I have a few questions for the new conservative majority in the legislature. Why are we still
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