Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill was filled with princes and paupers gathered to pay tribute to Bill Friday.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 11:06 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Republican Rep. Tom Murry was named "Most Effective Freshman Legislator" by the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research. But to get re-elected in state House District 41 he must battle a tough challenger and woo an unpredictable electorate.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 10:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Robeson County is about as yellow-dog Democrat as you can get. In 1972, while George McGovern was getting destroyed nationwide by Richard Nixon - he was winning comfortably in Robeson County.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 8:12 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina's child care subsidy programs represent a fraction of the nearly $18 billion operating budget managed by North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 3:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most people think of occupations requiring licenses as those like medicine and law. North Carolina, however, has made it state's business to certify auctioneers, barbers, librarians, manicurists, and over a hundred others.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 2:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Markey Lee Griffin, Jr., 49, a resident of 114 Pantego St., Belhaven, died Tuesday, October 16, 2012, at Vidant Medical Center.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 11:09 am
By: Announcements
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The Shelter Providers Political Action Committee Enterprise (SPPACE), a non-partisan political action committee made up of Realtors(TM), homebuilders, ommercial and multifamily developers and commercial real estate brokers, has endorsed Dan Forest for NC Lt. Governor.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 11:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Once again, we got treated to a double-header of televised political brilliance.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 10:09 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The race to fill the open seat in state House District 63 is being waged by a pair of veteran municipal officials, one viewed in some quarters as an establishment Republican, the other a Democrat with some conservative notions.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 8:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This general election has been heralded as the most important election in 30 years. I surmise that this is the most important election in exactly 32 years.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 7:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Gerald Ford once quipped in the middle of a presidential debate, "It was my understanding that there would be no math."
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 5:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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