1+ week, 2+ day ago   (519+ words) We don’t have enough problems trying to educate our 1 million school children in North Carolina, so our esteemed legislators decided they would throw another monkey wrench into things. Hidden deep in the bowels of the 634-page, $34 billion budget lawmakers finally…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (209+ words) The city of Monroe and Union County will hold a Patriot’s Day ceremony on Friday, Sept. 11 at the historic Union County Courthouse on Hayne Street in Monroe beginning at 9 a.m. The ceremony will mark 25 years since the terrorist attacks of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (354+ words) California Gov. Gavin Newsom attends the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference in Los Angeles on July 14. Newsome will be attending a rally at the Union County Agricultural and Event Complex this Saturday afternoon. MONROE, N.C. – For the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (656+ words) Congressman Don Davis was serving food and shaking hands with his new constituents on a recent Saturday in Pamlico County, one of six counties added to his district last October when our legislature, at Donald Trump’s insistence, gerrymandered the First…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (301+ words) Earlier this month, the voters of Missouri decisively defeated a constitutional amendment authorizing an end to the state’s income tax. It was an overwhelming defeat — 17% for, 83% against — for a ballot measure that failed in urban, suburban, and rural counties alike....