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Election irregularities have been an open secret in Bladen County for most of this decade
Published: Saturday, December 8th, 2018 @ 8:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, a distant relative of 19th century Vice President Aaron Burr, trounced Democrat Elaine Marshall in 2010 with the largest percentage of the vote in North Carolina's U.S. Senate races since the Watergate era.
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2016 @ 1:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Four Democrats are vying for their party’s nomination to the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Richard Burr: Durham businessman Kevin Griffin; retired Army Capt. Ernest Reeves of Greenville; Spring Lake Mayor Chris Rey; and former state Rep. Deborah Ross of Raleigh.
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2016 @ 10:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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rry Holmquist can remember the time he decided to wage his first political campaign and challenge two-term Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr in the March 15 primary.
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 6:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina features "undoubtedly the premier governor's race of the country" for 2016, and if the election were held today GOP Gov. Pat McCrory would be re-elected despite shaky approval ratings, said Tom Jensen, director of the Raleigh-based firm Public Policy Polling.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 6:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 3:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Drew Elliot, communications director for the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, has confirmed to Carolina Journal that a staff review of potential "self-dealing" with a stimulus grant awarded to a company owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's husband and other family members.
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 11:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The handling of a $250,644 stimulus grant received by a company co-owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's husband has been referred to the state auditor by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources for "further legal review," according to documents obtained by Carolina Journal.
Published: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 4:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Expressing disappointment at Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's record on immigration, about two dozen young immigrants who entered the country when their families crossed the border illegally and their supporters gathered Thursday beneath a billboard on Hillsborough Road critical of the senator who i
Published: Wednesday, October 29th, 2014 @ 11:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From a report filed early Saturday by WRAL-TV news, we have confirmation that a cluster of businesses owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's husband and other family members collected even more subsidies from taxpayers than initially reported. While Carolina Journal's Don Carrington has...
Published: Saturday, October 25th, 2014 @ 11:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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JDC Manufacturing, a company co-owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's husband Charles "Chip" Hagan, lowered the total cost of a 2010 stimulus-funded energy project but kept all of the savings, sending none back to taxpayers who had funded the stimulus grant.
Published: Thursday, October 16th, 2014 @ 4:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's account in Thursday's Senate debate regarding ethics questions surrounding the $250,644 stimulus grant awarded in 2010 to JDC Manufacturing
Published: Thursday, October 16th, 2014 @ 8:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The two grants were used for the installation of rooftop solar panels on a 300,000-square-foot building in Reidsville owned by JDC, and leased to Plastic Revolutions, a recycling company also owned by the Hagan family
Published: Thursday, October 16th, 2014 @ 5:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan did her best at a debate Thursday night to portray North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis as a crony of corporate CEOs seeking tax favors at the expense of the middle class and poor people who would take that practice to Washington.
Published: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 5:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As we go to press, polls are showing incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan with a slender lead over her Republican challenger, House Speaker Thom Tillis. And Hagan received a minor bump after Labor Day, no doubt as the result of a host of ads from Hagan and allied groups on education funding...
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 12:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan has been running hard for reelection for more than a year.
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 3:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Republicans continue to portray Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan as joined at the hip to an unpopular President Obama, and with congressional approval ratings in the ditch, the freshman senator’s best campaign strategy is to avoid national issues, political observers say.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 12:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Citing health, public safety, criminal justice, and fiscal concerns, Gov. Pat McCrory Tuesday called for immediate federal action to address the relocation of 1,200 unaccompanied illegal-immigrant minors into North Carolina.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 11:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With budget done, Medicaid and coal ash resolutions could wait
Published: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 9:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Billionaire Jim Simons, a major contributor to a Democratic political candidates, funds, and causes, has come under fire from federal investigators, a move that has not gone unnoticed by the North Carolina Republican Party.
Published: Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 @ 4:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political pundits across the nation are watching closely this year as North Carolinians prepare to head to the polls to decide whether first-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan will keep her job.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 12:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some of the House Democrats' most vocal advocates for Medicaid expansion in North Carolina have filed House Bill 1083, committing the state to add more of its poorest residents to the government health insurance program.
Published: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 @ 9:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The races for only 7 percent of state legislative seats - and no congressional districts - are likely to be competitive this year, say two organizations tracking North Carolina voting trends.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 @ 8:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Early career teachers will get pay raises starting in the fiscal year beginning July 1, and teachers with up to seven years of service will collect double-digit percentage increases, Gov. Pat McCrory announced Monday. The package is expected to cost less than $200 million and will not require a...
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2014 @ 5:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There have been a lot of great female pairings in American history. Lucy & Ethel. Laverne & Shirley. Kate & Allie. Thelma & Louise. THE BARBI TWINS!!!!
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 @ 12:20 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It looks like my prediction that running for the US Senate would shove leadership of the state House into a distant second place is panning out.
Published: Friday, July 19th, 2013 @ 10:11 am
By: Brant Clifton
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This is the final week 70,000 jobless workers in North Carolina will receive a federal emergency unemployment compensation check. But Dale Folwell, the state official in charge of jobless benefits, says reports claiming that as many as 170,000 unemployed state residents might lose federal...
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 @ 10:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Larry Keller, who runs a computer consulting business from his Asheville home, sent an email April 27 to the EPA in an attempt to reach Al Armendariz, EPA regional administrator for Region 6.
Published: Thursday, May 31st, 2012 @ 4:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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