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• While plenty of ink has been spilled over the impending June 7 primary race between incumbent GOP Reps. Renee Ellmers and George Holding in the 2nd Congressional District (Holding…
• A few days before WRAL News reported that the U.S. Department of Energy was investigating potential self-dealing and conflicts of interest regarding stimulus grants taken by businesses owned by…
Former U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick of North Carolina, speaking now for the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, explains in a Daily Caller column why she supports free trade. As…
I’m always interested in how members of Congress use their official websites. Often it’s what’s NOT there that is as revealing as what is. I visited each of our 13…
In case you’re interested in how North Carolina’s U.S. House delegation voted on the “fiscal cliff” bill last night, here it is. The vote was not along strict party lines.…
• Obama capitalists: Two Triangle-area venture capitalists and equity players have bundled a combined $1 million for the president’s campaign. • Stop the presses: “Representative Deborah Ross and her husband,…
Carolina Journal’s Dan Way has a new article out looking at the Republicans looking to take over Sue Myrick’s seat in Congress. As there are 10 of them running, the…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on the race to replace Sue Myrick as U.S. representative in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. John Hood’s Daily Journal questions the purported…
Little discord at N.C. Democratic gubernatorial debate Monday night (N&O) Gov. Bev Perdue joins other Democrats in asking N.C. Democratic Party Chairman David Parker to resign (Associated Press) National Republicans…
The Associated Press has a piece out on the contest to replace Sue Myrick. My prediction: Pain. And a runoff, though I have no idea who the runoff will involve.
Here is my short list of key and/or interesting congressional primaries to track in North Carolina this year: 7TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Candidates Mike McIntyre, a Democrat first elected in 1996,…
This weekend, a 14-year-old victim who was sexually abused by an illegal immigrant gave birth in an apartment bathroom. The man, Juan Martinez Hernandez, first become known to Mecklenburg County’s…