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Mulvaney Campaign Leads by 10, Hosts Mitt Romney

With less than a week to go before the midterm election, recent polls like this one from The Hill indicate that Mick Mulvaney leads incumbant Democrat John Spratt by 10 points.

October 28, 2010 | Posted in Carolinas,Photos | Read More »

Race To The Finish

With only a few short days left until Election 2010 is in the books it is becoming ever more clear that once again, Independent voters hold the power and the key to the outcome of the election here in Mecklenburg County, as well as around the country. With that being said, I have asked myself […]

October 28, 2010 | Posted in County Beat | Read More »

Bobcats Open Practice

Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The Bobcats gear up for the regular season with a practice earlier this week that was open to the public, where folks could also grab a sneak peek at the new team store. [nggallery id=91]

October 28, 2010 | Posted in Photos Not Featured | Read More »

High School Gridiron Action

Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Providence hung tough for three quarters, but it wasn’t enough to fend off Butler, which walked away with a 40-0 win in gridiron action last week. [nggallery id=90]

October 28, 2010 | Posted in Photos Not Featured | Read More »

Rights, Privileges And The Military

Editor’s Note: This should have been included when the column was originally published; it would have cleared up a lot of confusion and misperceptions. Matthew Ridenhour wrote it as a Marine and a political thinker, and as one of this site’s valued House Guest contributors, unrelated to his role as a leader of the local […]

October 27, 2010 | Posted in House Guests,Matthew Ridenhour,National | Read More »

CMS’ Case For Continuous Upheaval

The same stone-broke board of education that insists it must close schools because the district simply has no money somehow found enough to award more than $1 million in contract extensions to top executives Tuesday night, hours before the board called in armed police to clear the government center’s meeting chamber of audience members protesting […]

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October 27, 2010 | Posted in CMS Beat,House Specials,Mark Pellin | Read More »

You Call That a Budget?

Lost in the media hype around the recent CMS decisions around school closings and the subsequent public forums – where the reporting focused on the anger and outrage – was any true focus on the actions of previous school board and CMS members that actually led to this situation.  All of us have read plenty […]

October 27, 2010 | Posted in House Mail | Read More »

Pelosi’s $5 Trillion Promise Problem

Turns out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t quite delivered on the promise she made in 2007, when she vowed that under her fiscal watch there would be “no new deficit spending.” Of course, she only missed it by $5 trillion, or so. This from CNS News: Pelosi has served as speaker in the 110th and […]

October 26, 2010 | Posted in House Specials,Mark Pellin,National | Read More »

A Legal License To Steal

One of the major problems with our society is the dependence upon and use of lawyers. Often they seem necessary, but in many ways they are a drain, even a burden on society. It is the how and why of their methods which are the basis of this problem. There are two ways in which […]

October 26, 2010 | Posted in House Blends,National | Read More »

The Many Scary Faces of Elaine Marshall

Just in time for Halloween . . . She calls herself independent and says she is a “scrapper”, but what I noticed while watching the recent debates between Democratic NC Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and Republican US Senator Richard Burr is that Marshall has an almost unnatural mix of common sense conservatism and far left ideology. It […]

October 26, 2010 | Posted in House Mail | Read More »

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