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HILL: That $50M bounty on Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela

August 14, 2025 Frank Hill

In a year already crammed with unusual, ground-breaking actions politically and by our government, one thing really popped out of the news recently: The Trump administration announced a $50 million reward for the arrest of […]

General Assembly, Stein honor Elizabeth Dole

June 13, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — During legislative business on June 4, the North Carolina General Assembly honored North Carolina’s former U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole through a Senate resolution as a “trailblazing public servant” for her five decades of service. “Senator Dole is […]

HILL: About those reciprocal tariffs

March 13, 2025 Frank Hill

The best tariffs are no tariffs anywhere in the world. Milton Friedman and any other free-market economist who ever lived would say the same thing. In a perfect world, raw materials, manufactured goods, and services […]

Democrats must defy history to win 2022 Senate race

December 29, 2021 Matt Mercer

RALEIGH — N.C. Democrats are confronting a trend working against them in the last 30 years of elections: they’ve won just two U.S. Senate races in that time frame. In the 10 U.S. Senate races […]

Lieberman book details help he received from GOP in 2006

October 20, 2021 The Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. — Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut details in a new book how aid from top Republicans — including strategist Karl Rove — helped him win reelection against a more left-leaning Democrat […]

HILL: 9/11 then and now

September 8, 2021 Frank Hill

I was walking out of the door to go to a meeting in downtown D.C. on Tuesday morning, Sept. 11, 2001, when my wife told me a plane had just crashed into one of the […]

Bob Dole says he’s been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer

February 18, 2021 John Hanna, Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. — Bob Dole, a former longtime senator and the 1996 Republican presidential nominee, announced Thursday that he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. Dole, 97, said in a short statement that […]