SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — In homage to a town with its origins steeped in railroad history, a grassroots group is rooting for the Town of Burgaw to be the first stop…
There’s an air of excitement here in Antigua and Barbuda as the United Progressive Party (UPP) celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. Wow! It’s been three decades full of risks, rewards and challenges, and at every turn, the Party has stayed the course and risen, in a most admirable way, to the…
Posted December 30, 2020 5:00 a.m. EST
EDITOR S NOTE: This column is by Seth Effron, opinion editor for Capitol Broadcasting Company. He s reported on North Carolina government and politics since 1985.
To the degree that Republican Sen. Phil Berger has emerged as a very influential and powerful public officeholder in North Carolina, he has Democrat Marc Basnight who died Monday, to thank. Basnight the largely self-educated rural legislator with the high-tider accent reshaped the North Carolina Senate at the end of the 20th century by transforming the largely ceremonial office of Senate President Pro Tempore into a power center that he held for 16 years.