State Rep. Greg Murphy will face Joan Perry July 9 in a runoff for the Republican nomination in the 3rd U.S. Congressional District.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Ten Republicans are among the 13 candidates seeking election to the vacant 9th U.S. Congressional District seat after the 2018 contest was marred with so much fraud the State Board of Elections ordered a new contest.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 @ 8:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With his congressional campaign in debt, his integrity under siege, his health in question, and a criminal investigation over corruption gathering steam, some political observers are doubtful.
Published: Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 @ 10:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republicans and Democrats held dueling news conferences Monday afternoon, trying to sway public opinion on the question of whether GOP Rep.-elect Mark Harris should be seated in the state's 9th U.S. Congressional District.
Published: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 @ 8:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement after learning of the death of former U.S. Congressman T. Cass Ballenger...
Published: Wednesday, February 18th, 2015 @ 11:56 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Reagan biographer and Human Events editor John Hayward has summed up the recently completed CRomnibus fight in Congress nicely.
Published: Sunday, December 28th, 2014 @ 3:09 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We’ve got record unemployment, a tanking economy, terrorism, an out-of-control lawless southern border, and ObamaCare gutting the vibrancy and spirit of America.
Published: Friday, February 21st, 2014 @ 12:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Hold on to your hats!! I am about to agree with something our glorious leader said. In talking about the National Debt and the Debt Limit, he laid the blame on the congress, those who control the purse strings. He was right (partly).
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2014 @ 12:52 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory released the following letter today in an effort to clear up misconceptions by Reps. David Price and G.K. Butterfield concerning the scheduling of the 12th Congressional District election in November.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2014 @ 12:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The legislative giant who told us John Boehner is her "boss" and that "you can't just take a law away because you want it to go away," is really out-doing herself this time.
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2013 @ 11:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Ira David Wood, in his delightful adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, sings a song, “What’s Christmas to you is humbug to me.” That pretty well sums up the prevailing attitude in North Carolina and the nation today.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 2:43 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Big Barry has nominated two guys -- who happen to be liberal black Democrats, like himself -- from North Carolina for important jobs in Washington.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 1:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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One of the big pieces of news from this year's elections was the large increase in the number of women elected to Congress.
Published: Thursday, January 17th, 2013 @ 1:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A trillion-dollar sequestration that immediately would cut large portions of domestic and military spending likely will be deferred until budget architects can put together a long-term fiscal plan in the new Congress, U.S. Rep. David Price said Monday.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 6:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While Republican Robert Pittenger invokes a need to return to the principles of Ronald Reagan, and Democrat Jennifer Roberts implores voters to remember she works in a bipartisan manner, the campaign cash gap between them grows.
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2012 @ 12:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The redistricting plan adopted last year by the General Assembly morphed the boundaries of the 13th U.S. Congressional District so much that its own congressman chose not to seek re-election.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 9:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congresswoman Renee Ellmers is having quite a rocky relationship with folks in her new majority Republican district. A recent survey by Public Policy Polling found that she was leading her Democrat opponent Steve Wilkins by only 44-28 in this VERY Republican district.
Published: Thursday, August 30th, 2012 @ 3:31 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It's interesting. We hear Standard & Poor's (S&P) telling us that we need to do something to get our financial act together. We hear Moody's Investor's Service telling us the same thing.
Published: Monday, August 1st, 2011 @ 10:18 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Butterfield did not pay any lip service to Woolard's demand for his resignation during his speech yesterday morning before the Beaufort County Democratic Party Executive Committee.
Published: Sunday, September 12th, 2010 @ 7:58 pm
By: BCN
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Thanks to the federal government, every property in Beaufort County is presently eligible for 100-percent financing through the USDA Rural Housing Program.
Published: Sunday, September 5th, 2010 @ 12:51 pm
By: BCN
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