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In North Carolina and across the country, rank-and-file Democrats are counting on a big blue wave to wash over congressional, legislative, and local elections this year, as well as over gubernatorial contests in the majority of states that, unlike ours, elect their governors in non-presidential year
Published: Tuesday, May 29th, 2018 @ 2:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican House candidates on average spent 21 percent more than Democrats leading up to the May 8 primary contests But the total fundraising gap between the parties was small
Published: Tuesday, May 29th, 2018 @ 3:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The People Whose Job It Is To Change Thing Are Changing Things
Published: Tuesday, May 29th, 2018 @ 3:31 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Last Monday, a teen who had recently been arrested for Grand Theft Auto killed Baltimore County Police Officer Amy Caprio after she responded to calls of burglary in the northeast suburb of Perry Hall
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 11:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Mr. Anthony Glenn Edwards, age 62, a resident of 6474 Leary Mills Road, Chocowinity, NC died Saturday May 26, 2018 at his home
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 7:49 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Jack Laverne Swanner, Sr., age 72, a resident of 155 Donna Avenue, Vanceboro, died Thursday evening, May 24, 2018 at his home
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 7:41 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Cecil Waite Bradley of 310 Lawson Road, Washington, N.C. went home to be with the Lord on May 24, 2018
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 7:29 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Harold Linwood Tyson, Sr., age 77, a resident of Washington, died Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at his home
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 7:24 pm
By: Announcements
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On Friday, May 25, former State Senator Jim Phillips Sr. of Lexington, NC passed away at age 86. He represented Davidson County in the state senate from 1997-2001
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 5:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The heroes who rest in these hallowed fields - in the cemeteries, battlefields, and burial grounds near and far - are drawn from the full tapestry of American life.
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 5:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The "early service", this morning was as peaceful as any I have ever attended.
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 3:40 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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Stay in your lanes and keep pushing forward, the outgoing chairman of the University of North Carolina's Board of Governors said during an unusually emotional meeting to elect new board officers
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 1:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Thursday, President Trump abruptly pulled out of the proposed June 12 summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un set for Singapore. He issued a fully Trumpian letter, replete with superlatives and near-expletives.
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 1:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Bickering over the state education budget opened the floodgates to a red sea in downtown Raleigh
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 4:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Grant of Clemency (Full Pardon) posthumously to John Arthur "Jack" Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight Champion of the World, for a Mann Act conviction that occurred during a period of racial tension more than a century ago.
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 4:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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For better and for worse, imperfect human beings fill government roles and make government decisions.
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 4:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, voted to pass the John S. McCain III, Daniel K. Akaka and Samuel R. Johnson VA Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 4:00 am
By: Thom Tillis
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About a year ago, some North Carolina craft brewers took on a couple behemoths in the state ABC system and a well-funded and entrenched network of wholesalers and distributors
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 3:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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According to emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, first reported by The Baltimore Post, advisors to then-President Barack Obama immediately strategized how to exploit the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary school to push their gun control agenda.
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2018 @ 6:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The minimum wage for state employees will rise to $15 an hour if the budget proposed by legislative leaders becomes law
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine you are a middle school student called on stage in front of 75 of your friends and peers
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2018 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am calling on the Congress to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminals, to break into our country.
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2018 @ 12:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The state Utility Commission will weigh whether the GenX compound that has polluted the Cape Fear River Basin could contaminate the Wilkinson Solar Plant in the Terra Ceia community of Beaufort County
Published: Saturday, May 26th, 2018 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed May 25 as National Missing Children’s Day in North Carolina
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 9:13 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Continuing further development of the State’s growing shellfish industry, Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1), Senator Harry Brown (R-District 6), and Senator Norman W. Sanderson (R-District 2) filed SB 738 (Support Shellfish Industry) in the North Carolina Senate yesterday, Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 9:08 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, applauded the House's passage of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, bipartisan legislation to improve our nation's financial regulatory framework and promote economic growth
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 9:06 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The House Select Committee on School Safety has announced plans to appropriate $35 million for a bevy of school safety measures in the upcoming budget
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 8:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Aging and Adult Services is partnering with the N.C. Area Agencies on Aging and local service providers to distribute fans through Operation Fan Heat Relief until Oct. 31.
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 8:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper today nominated three people to serve the state as Special Superior Court judges
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 1:11 pm
By: Governor's Office
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This time, we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint. We will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars.
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 1:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, the state's largest health insurance provider, is giving $159,000 to five counties to cut debt in their school lunch programs
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 7:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Once again, I woke to the sound of rain . . .and once again, it was wonderful. I could put off the process of cleaning the biggest barn without a bit of guilt.
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 7:28 am
By: Michele Rhem
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Dave's book is the manual for "How To" and "How to Avoid" School Shootings. After scanning the book, page 404 mentioned the FBI manual and also one by the Secret Service. I am a Cliff Note kind of reader and maybe this will help us both.
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 7:26 am
By: Ted McDonald
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North Carolina continues to be a popular destination for people across the country - and around the world - who are looking for a great place to live, work, invest, rear families, and retire
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 2:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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