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Senate interim committee assignments released
RALEIGH – Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) announced Senate oversight committee assignments for the interim. Most committees will meet once per month, or less, until the General Assembly...
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Foxx announces Anna McEntee as communications director
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Monday announced that Anna McEntee has joined her Washington, D.C., office as communications director. “I am pleased to welcome Anna to the team,” said...
View ArticleJones County Public Schools to open a new K-12 school
KINSTON — Down in Eastern North Carolina, rural counties struggle with economic disparities ranging from poverty to single-family homes to lack of financial resources for infrastructure needs. Children...
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White House blocks Obama-era rule expanding pay data from companies
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has blocked a rule requiring employers to report detailed pay data broken down by gender and race, echoing business groups by saying it would not have the...
View ArticleCandidates gear up for Charlotte mayoral primary next week
CHARLOTTE — After an eventful couple of years, the Queen City is ramping up for the next mayoral election with the lingering question of whether Jennifer Roberts will survive another term. Both...
View ArticleHILL: Tax reform should force money out of political campaigns
Call your senator and congressman and demand they close most tax loopholes in the U.S. tax code if you are upset about the level of money in political campaigns today. Taking money out of politics is...
View ArticleHILL: ‘Politics is Philosophy By Other Means’
Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general, wrote in his classic book on military strategy in 1818, “On War:” War is a mere continuation of policy by other means. Taken one step further, this axiom can...
View ArticleHILL: ‘NC General Assembly Republicans Have Done It Again!’
“What did the ‘Mean Old Republicans” (MOR) in the General Assembly do now?’ you might ask if you are on the other side of things that haven’t been going your way for the last eight years in North...
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Is the White House Haunted? Jenna and Barbara Bush Share Their Ghost Story
LOS ANGELES — Jenna Bush Hager and sister Barbara Bush returned to D.C. last week for the debut of their new book, but given the time of year, it was natural they would be asked [...]
View ArticleNOTHSTINE: Why conservatism is the best path forward
Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said it well recently when he stated that he was an “American first, a conservative second, and a Republican third.” Sasse’s point was that we endanger the Republic when we get...
View ArticleTo celebrate the N.C. Constitution, read it
This year marks the sesquicentennial anniversary of the 1868 North Carolina Constitution. Although there were conventions that drastically changed the state’s constitution in 1835 and 1875, the Old...
View ArticleGov. Cooper makes appointments to Elections and Ethics Board
RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper appointed four Democrats and four Republicans to the State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement today under a newly enacted law. The first order of business for the new...
View ArticleOne oak among many
RALEIGH — The City of Oaks played host to a unique event this week that has its roots in an oak tree that used to stand there. Lt. Gov. Dan Forest has hosted an annual Henry Clay Day each year since...
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Pompeo confirmed as Secretary of State by U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state on Thursday, and the former CIA director set off immediately on a trip to meet key allies in...
View ArticleBARONE: California results suggest blue wave has crested and ebbed
The nation is just past halftime in the 2018 primary election cycle. Twenty states — containing the majority, 228 of 435, of House districts — have held their primaries, and all but the three with...
View ArticleSCOTUS declines to review Rowan County case that stopped prayer
RALEIGH — The Supreme Court of the United States today declined to hear an appeal from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals which had determined that the Rowan County Board of Commissioners violated the...
View ArticleHILL: The Old North State Electoral Armistice of 2018
The election process in North Carolina is broken. More specifically, the process in-between elections is broken. Too many lawyers. Too many lawsuits. Too many unelected judges inserting themselves into...
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Trump says 7 to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has announced his first recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and they include the wife of a major Republican Party donor, the longest-serving...
View ArticleBill would let fraud investigation continue, potentially a new election for...
RALEIGH — On Tuesday, leadership in the N.C. legislature announced a new bill that restores the State Board of Elections to its original 2016 composition and could allow for a new election in North...
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Evidentiary hearing on 9th District issues rescheduled
RALEIGH — An evidentiary hearing on allegations of absentee ballot fraud in a North Carolina congressional district election has been rescheduled.The N.C. State Board of Elections and Ethics...
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