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While gathering some performance metrics for North Carolina policy nonprofits, I noticed an interesting trend in the data from the microblogging site Twitter. While you might think that the most-followed Twitter accounts on...
Published: Monday, March 18th, 2013 @ 1:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The hottest trend these days among mainstream media-types is to publish names and addresses of people who have concealed-carry permits. WRAL and a newspaper in NY tried it -- and got burned.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 11:11 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Charlotte officials believe Senate Republicans have an ulterior motive in sponsoring legislation to create a regional authority to own and operate Charlotte-Douglas International Airport.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2013 @ 4:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Who gets to run Charlotte Douglas International Airport has become a prickly, billion-dollar turf battle. City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County officials want to ground what they see as an unnecessary power grab orchestrated by...
Published: Friday, February 22nd, 2013 @ 11:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Carolina Panthers are a very, very very bad football team. Their owner, Jerry Richardson, is a very, very, very wealthy and very, very, very connected man.
Published: Thursday, January 17th, 2013 @ 2:57 am
By: Brant Clifton
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At the only statewide conservative conference in North Carolina, speakers, workshops, and special events will educate and empower conservatives on how we can restore our state to greatness.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 @ 9:50 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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Durham County Democrats say Republican complaints about hosting partisan Democratic events at government facilities are off-base because nothing prevents Republicans from using public meeting space for their own partisan activities.
Published: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 @ 10:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The friendliest city to food trucks in North Carolina may kick food trucks off its streets, or at least streets where there are restaurants nearby.
Published: Friday, July 20th, 2012 @ 7:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 55 men who drafted the U.S. Constitution believed that the House of Representatives should be the people's house.
Published: Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 @ 12:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans Jack Wall and Brian Brown will compete in the May 8 primary for the North Carolina House District 9 seat currently held by six-term Democrat Marian McLawhorn.
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 @ 12:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The City of Washington Agenda for their meeting on Monday Evening, April 9, 2012.
Published: Friday, April 6th, 2012 @ 11:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A wave of similar reactions rippled through the city last week as news of the proposal spread. Within days a neighborhood-driven opposition movement was growing, fed in part by the secretive nature of port and company officials in their first steps at outreach.
Published: Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 @ 2:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Just yesterday a constituent asked my opinion on the possible PCS sulfur smelting plant at their Aurora, North Carolina mine, to which I answered, "we may not have to concern ourselves with this since PCS is considering the Portsmouth Marine Terminal to site the plant."
Published: Friday, January 13th, 2012 @ 9:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It was all over before 8:00 pm at the Beaufort County Board of Election. With an anemically low turnout, and the new and improved equipment for processing votes, the Beaufort County Board of Elections finished up in time where one could still make their supper date, get home and watch prime time.
Published: Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 @ 3:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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After years of searching, city agrees on plan to build Festival Park
Published: Thursday, January 21st, 2010 @ 3:03 pm
By: BCN
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The mayor and three out of five council members are out in Washington. Adam O'Neal and the boys hold down the fort in Belhaven.
Published: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 @ 9:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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