RALEIGH, N.C. – Only three months after a record-breaking voter turnout in the 2008 election, potential candidates for an open North Carolina U.S. Senate seat in 2010 all start out with very low statewide name recognition.
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According to the latest Civitas Poll, a majority of voters in North Carolina are not aware of either [...]

Timothy Ryan Gutierrez, 20, could see a sentence of up to 10 years for his alleged recent e-mails sent directly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation threatening to “assassinate” President Barack Obama, Wired Magazine reports.

Banks based in North Carolina have accepted more money from the Treasury Department’s rescue package than financial institutions in any state except New York, the nation’s financial capital.
With President Barack Obama promising to reshape the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program before distributing the second half of the funding, details are emerging about how North [...]

WASHINGTON  – President Barack Obama’s last campaign was all about winning the presidency. Now his political supporters are throwing election-style house parties across the country to try to get people behind his economic stimulus plan.
Obama’s Organizing for America chief Mitch Stewart sent an e-mail to part of the group’s e-mail list and urged them to [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. – State Treasurer Janet Cowell Friday released the 2009 Debt Affordability Study to Gov. Perdue and members of the General Assembly.
The annual analysis found that the state can authorize $50.2 million in new general fund-supported debt for each of the next five years and remain within the 4 percent debt service to tax revenues [...]

WASHINGTON – And then there were two.
 
Michigan GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis has dropped out of the race for Republican Party chairman.
That leaves former Maryland Lt. Gov Michael Steele and GOP Chairman Katon Dawson going head-to-head in the sixth balloting for the right to head the Republican National Committee.
It’s all but certain one will come out [...]

Winston-Salem Journal Editorial
The Interior Department has issued a detailed proposal for oil and gas drilling off both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts – including the fragile, already-threatened North Carolina coast. President Obama should scrap the whole plan and concentrate on making the country more energy independent, a theme he stressed again Monday. State leaders should [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Supporting a measure that will provide thousands of uninsured children in North Carolina health coverage, U.S. Senator Kay R. Hagan (D-N.C.) Friday voted for an expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that will cover 10 million children nationwide. 
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By SEAN MUSSENDEN
Media General News Service
WASHINGTON-It’s pretty rare for a freshman lawmaker to help shape an important bill like the economic recovery package that passed the House Wednesday.
But Rep. Larry Kissell, D-Biscoe, was given a prime slot on CSPAN to talk up his amendment that would require the Homeland Security Department to buy uniforms made [...]