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Don Brown grew up in Plymouth, North Carolina, in Washington County. He spent his youth fishing in the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds with his grandfather, including net fishing for herring.
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2026 @ 1:56 pm
By: ENC NOW
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On Wednesday, Sen. Richard Burr delivered his farewell address on the floor of the U.S. Senate after nearly 30 years representing North Carolina in Washington, D.C.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 12:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new rundown of the top 10 U.S. Senate races in the country most likely to flip puts the North Carolina horserace between Republican Ted Budd and Democrat Cheri Beasley in sixth place.
Published: Friday, October 14th, 2022 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley has had difficulty getting her schedule to align with events by Biden administration officials visiting North Carolina, and Republicans were happy to point it out during Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s visit to Durham on Sept. 27.
Published: Tuesday, October 4th, 2022 @ 11:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Getting Ted Budd to the U.S. Senate appears to be a top priority for national Republicans. In campaign spending reports out Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund PAC spent more than $3.4 million in ads for the North Carolina congressman this week.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 10:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo endorsed Ted Budd for U.S. Senate in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 12:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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U.S. Rep. Ted Budd now leads the pack in the Republican primary for the open U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina, according to a new Civitas Poll of likely GOP voters released Thursday, April 7.
Published: Monday, April 11th, 2022 @ 11:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 @ 1:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A group that works to elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate and an election watchdog group are offering their support to North Carolina’s challenged voter ID law.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 8:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Politico reported last night that Democrat Jeff Jackson will be dropping out of the U.S. Senate race, proving that Chuck Schumer is once again rigging the North Carolina Democratic primary for his handpicked candidate, Cheri Beasley.
Published: Saturday, December 18th, 2021 @ 12:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Third-quarter fundraising numbers for U.S. Senate candidates in North Carolina show little separation between the Republican front-runners, former Gov. Pat McCrory and U.S. Rep. Ted Budd.
Published: Monday, November 15th, 2021 @ 8:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Carolina Journal recently reported on the second quarter federal fundraising numbers for declared U.S. Senate candidates in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, August 10th, 2021 @ 3:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Prospects of Lara Trump running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina next year got an unexpected boost Friday night.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 2:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Campaigns for president, U.S. Senate and House, governor, and hundreds of other political races have spent staggering sums to market their candidates to North Carolina voters.
Published: Thursday, October 29th, 2020 @ 3:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) posted a new billboard today in Raleigh attacking U.S. Senate candidate Erica Smith as too liberal for North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2019 @ 2:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) took to the Senate floor to speak on North Carolina native Andrew Brunson, who has been wrongfully imprisoned by the Turkish Government since October 7, 2016
Published: Sunday, June 10th, 2018 @ 8:49 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, announced that he secured $53 million to fund three North Carolina State Veterans Home construction projects through the VA State Veterans Home Construction Grant Program
Published: Thursday, April 19th, 2018 @ 5:02 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The U.S. Senate should establish a special committee to investigate the roles of the U.S. Olympics Committee and U.S.A. Gymnastics in the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case, say lawmakers, including North Carolina U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2018 @ 1:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) voted in favor of the Senate's two-year budget agreement that provides increased defense funding and $125 million in additional funding for North Carolina's Hurricane Matthew relief efforts
Published: Saturday, February 10th, 2018 @ 12:43 am
By: Thom Tillis
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-10 today to approve the nomination of Raleigh attorney Thomas Farr as a federal judge for North Carolina
Published: Friday, January 19th, 2018 @ 5:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, hosted a roundtable discussion at Onslow Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, N.C., on developing an integrated military-civilian trauma system in Eastern North Carolina
Published: Thursday, June 1st, 2017 @ 10:22 am
By: Thom Tillis
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During his first two years in the U.S. Senate, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) has been a leading advocate for bipartisan criminal justice reform, a continuation of his successful efforts to implement reforms at the state level during his tenure as North Carolina House Speaker
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2016 @ 4:42 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) applauded the Senate's passage of legislation reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2016 @ 11:17 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Former judge Paul Wright, who has run unsuccessfully for governor and Congress, has announced he will be challenge incumbent Republican Richard Burr for renomination in 2016.
Published: Friday, September 18th, 2015 @ 5:00 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Two aspects of the 2014 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 3:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and her Republican challenger Thom Tillis looks like it's about to become the most expensive statewide race in North Carolina history.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 10:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Kay Hagan's campaign and its trolls are all over social media trumpeting a report published in the Greensboro News & Record that says North Carolina "ranks as worst state for teachers."
Published: Friday, October 3rd, 2014 @ 1:42 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Two Thom Tillis press releases for the time it takes to find and read one.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 8:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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he drive-bys are working hard to gin up some interest in tonight's US Senate debate. They are trying to sell us on the possibility that this televised event tonight could change the course of the race.
Published: Friday, September 5th, 2014 @ 9:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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During the recently completed primary, we were told that Thom Tillis is on cruise-control to Capitol Hill. Kay Hagan needs to start packing. Miss Susan can start measuring for drapes.
Published: Thursday, June 12th, 2014 @ 3:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A few weeks ago, I wrote that partisan control of the U.S. Senate may well be determined here in North Carolina, where Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan suffers from low job-approval ratings and a close association with unpopular President Barack Obama.
Published: Monday, April 28th, 2014 @ 7:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2010, Utah’s Mike Lee made his first bid for elected office — waging an underdog campaign taking on a well-funded, well-known GOP establishment figure in the state’s US Senate race.
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 1:40 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In 2010, we rose up en masse in protest against ObamaCare. We gave the US House to the Republicans, and closed the GOP's deficit with the Democrats in the Senate.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 8:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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t is hard to imagine any candidate for US Senate surviving the May Republican Primary who could be a worse choice for America than our current US Senator, Obama-supporting Democrat Kay Hagan.
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2014 @ 4:31 pm
By: Mattie Lawson
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State House speaker and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been catching some flak from GOP activists — and finally from the mainstream media — for skipping out on candidate debates in the GOP primary race.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 11:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Elections have consequences. In 1980, we put out Jimmy Carter, elected Ronald Reagan, and got tax cuts and unprecedented economic growth.
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Mark Harris is closely associated with the state constitutional amendment passed in May 2012 defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
Published: Thursday, November 7th, 2013 @ 6:38 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Beaufort Patriot TEA Party has endorsed Greg Brannon for the U. S. Senate in 2014.
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2013 @ 6:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) announced his endorsement of Dr. Greg Brannon for U.S. Senate in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, October 17th, 2013 @ 2:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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