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The former first lady also did not attend Jimmy Carter's funeral.
Published: Monday, January 20th, 2025 @ 4:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Dozens of Democratic lawmakers have announced they will boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Wednesday address to a joint session of Congress to protest Israel’s war against Hamas.
Published: Monday, July 29th, 2024 @ 5:26 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, will skip a fifth Republican primary debate, opting to participate in a Fox News town hall scheduled for the same time on January 10.
Published: Friday, February 16th, 2024 @ 6:03 pm
By: Daily Wire
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President Trump announced on Friday that he will skip President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2021 @ 7:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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Senator Chris Coons (D-DL), who serves as a Biden surrogate, had informed Politico that he was unsure whether further debates should be held
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 7:42 pm
By: Daily Wire
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May I introduce you to some of the first-degree murderers who had their death sentences indefinitely postponed by our state Supreme Court on June 5.
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020 @ 2:08 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Some are claiming virus concerns. Not likely.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2020 @ 12:25 pm
By: LifeZette
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North Carolina's still-young Opportunity Scholarship Program would get a major boost if a provision in the proposed Senate budget becomes law
Published: Friday, June 3rd, 2016 @ 3:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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NC Speaker of the House, Paul "Skip" Stam, released an official statement offering to assist PayPal in finding a new state to do business in, since it has chosen to boycott NC
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2016 @ 1:26 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Politicians never cease to amaze me. A few sessions back, I was treated to a barrage of b*tching from various Republican legislators about Skip Stam and Thom Tillis.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 5:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) today released the following statement in response to Representative Skip Stam's announced retirement from the General Assembly.
Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2015 @ 11:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A rightward shift. That's how two sources - who both had votes in today's leadership vote - described the final results to me.
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 8:50 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Then-speaker Thom Tillis, Skip Stam, the Black Caucus, and The John Locke Foundation were all quite passionate about passing reparations for people sterilized by the state of North Carolina from the 20s to the 70s.
Published: Thursday, November 27th, 2014 @ 6:25 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I am listening to the program on the eve after Skip Waters' untimely and sudden death. It has brought tears to my eyes even though I never met him personally. It is obvious how he touches Eastern NC since the early 50's.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 1:03 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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a shocking development, Kay Hagan’s campaign admitted to the Associated Press that Sen. Hagan skipped a classified national security briefing on February 27, 2014 to attend a cocktail fundraising reception in New York City.
Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 @ 5:47 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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GOP leaders from Thom Tillis to Skip Stam to Pat McCrory have bent over backwards to tell us what a great idea privately-managed toll roads are.
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 1:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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State Sen. Gladys Robinson is facing her stiffest election test to date in the May 6 Democratic primary for District 28 as she squares off against former Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston.
Published: Wednesday, April 30th, 2014 @ 7:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal activists may fume, and left-wing editorialists may grind their teeth, but legislative leaders are going to defend energetically their 2013 opportunity scholarship bill against lawsuits by the teacher union and other special interests.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. Charles C. "Skipper" Edwards Sr., age 67, a resident of 105 Waterside Dr., Bath, died Wednesday, March 19, 2014.
Published: Friday, March 21st, 2014 @ 12:57 am
By: Announcements
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Get in line in Greensboro. They're handing out money and they're not saying no. That's not just the view of a few cynical observers. One City Council member expressed that sentiment during debate over a $1.9 million incentive for a proposed $40 million downtown hotel.
Published: Tuesday, March 4th, 2014 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. Joseph B. "Skipper" Duke, age 71, a resident of Greenville, NC, died in his home on Sunday, January 19, 2014.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 3:35 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Joseph "Skipper" Benjamin Duke, age 71, died Sunday, January 19, 2014.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014 @ 4:15 am
By: Announcements
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He is unable to walk like kids his age, but my niece's son gave his family the best gift ever when he pulled himself up and balanced against a fence while playing in the Arizona sunshine.
Published: Thursday, December 26th, 2013 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Game changer." "Anchor." "New brand for Greensboro." "Cool." If these terms describing a forthcoming project in Greensboro sound familiar, it's because the Gate City seems to have a lot of similar plans under way these days.
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2013 @ 4:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state House Thursday struck a blow for broad regulatory reform. Senate Bill 112 seeks to streamline the rulemaking process, protect grandfathered zoning decisions, prohibit zoning protest petitions, and remove industrial commissioners from state personnel protections. The bill also would...
Published: Saturday, July 13th, 2013 @ 7:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I got my first lesson in competition when I was a 12-year-old first baseman on a softball team. For years I'd been the only girl able to snag wild throws...
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 1:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government doling out taxpayer dollars to politically-connected businesses is bad enough, but this week's Bad Bill of the Week takes that concept to even lower depths.
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2013 @ 11:19 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Earlier this week Representatives Rob Bryan (R-Mecklenburg), Brian Brown (R-Pitt) and Marcus Brandon (D-Guilford) introduced HB 944, the Opportunity Scholarship Act.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2013 @ 9:25 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Some disturbing reports are coming over the transom about the former NC state House majority leader recently banished to purgatory (a/k/a the post of speaker pro tem).
Published: Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 @ 8:51 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Five months after state lawmakers passed a law freeing food truck owners from a regulation that required them to rent space in a restaurant or commissary, no food truck operator has taken advantage of it.
Published: Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 @ 5:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I button-holed a Republican legislator recently to try and get some of the inside skinny on the happenings on Jones Street.
Published: Monday, October 8th, 2012 @ 11:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A Cary government watchdog organization believes the town is violating state law by placing a one-sided video on the town's website hailing the benefits of tax increases to pay $80 million for three bond referendums on the Nov. 6 ballot.
Published: Sunday, October 7th, 2012 @ 11:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new political climate in the state capital could result in a number of school choice reforms enacted into law next year, a panel of legislators said Tuesday during a luncheon on school choice.
Published: Monday, September 24th, 2012 @ 11:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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