Joey Hopkins, Gov. Cooper’s nominee to serve as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), answered questions in an April 24th legislative hearing. (Photo: Screengrab NCGA livefeed) Governor Roy Cooper tapped Joey Hopkins to serve as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) last September, but Wednesday was his first day […]
Apr. 12—RANDOLPH COUNTY — Lester Rivenbark, his family and supporters started working more than a year before the Republican primary for the Randolph County Board of Commissioners, seeking a path to victory as a challenger, but Rivenbark said he wasn’t prepared on election night for the scope of his win. In his first bid for […]
Country music fans, are you ready for the 2024 CMT Music Awards? This Sunday, some of the biggest stars of the genre will gather in Austin, TX for the fan-voted awards show, featuring an absolutely stacked slate of performers, including a collaboration between Little Big Town and Sugarland, plus Jelly Roll, Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, […]
Country music fans, are you ready for the 2024 CMT Music Awards? This Sunday, some of the biggest stars of the genre will gather in Austin, TX for the fan-voted awards show, featuring an absolutely stacked slate of performers, including a collaboration between Little Big Town and Sugarland, plus Jelly Roll, Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, […]
DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado Democrats have selected a nominee to run in the special election to fill the rest of former U.S. Rep. Ken Buck’s term in a heavily Republican congressional district. Trisha Calvarese won nearly 65% of the vote in a special Monday night convention in Congressional District 4, according to a release from […]
The man who will likely temporarily replace Representative Ken Buck in Congress has a history of frightening run-ins with the law. A Republican committee on Thursday chose Greg Lopez, the former mayor of Parker, Colorado, as the party nominee for the upcoming special election to replace Buck. Buck, who left Congress last week, represented Colorado’s […]
Joe Lieberman — independent four-term U.S. senator and Al Gore’s Democratic running mate in 2000 — died at the age of 82 on Wednesday, due to complications from a fall in New York, according to a statement from his family. The first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, Lieberman made a reputation for himself as someone […]
Former U.S. senator and Vice Presidential nominee Joe Lieberman has reportedly passed away at 82, according to a statement released by the politician’s family. Lieberman, a longtime senator for Connecticut, was known as the first Jewish American to receive a nomination on the ticket of a major party. Per Lieberman’s family, his loved ones were […]
The former US senator Joe Lieberman, who ran as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in the 2000 election and became the first Jewish candidate on a ticket for the White House, alongside presidential candidate Al Gore, has died at the age of 82. Lieberman died in New York, according to a statement from his family. […]
Bernie Moreno, the GOP nominee for Senate in Ohio, is an opponent of affirmative action. But he’s said he got his first dealership at a lower price in part because of his racial background. It puts Moreno in an uncomfortable spot as the GOP crusades against corporate DEI initiatives. Bernie Moreno, the GOP nominee for […]
The Republican nominee for superintendent overseeing North Carolina’s public schools and its $11 billion budget has a history marked by extreme and controversial comments, including sharing baseless conspiracy theories and frequent calls for the execution of prominent Democrats. Michele Morrow, a conservative activist who last week upset the incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction in North […]
Multiple Democratic senators and their staff have privately warned the White House in recent days that there does not appear to be enough votes in the Senate to confirm Adeel Mangi, President Joe Biden’s Muslim-American judicial nominee, sources familiar with the conversations tell CNN – appearing to suggest that the confirmation of one of Biden’s […]