Robin Hayes News

Thomas Hill is running for Congress. The 43-year-old Concord electrician announced his run for the 8th District seat in an e-mail message sent out Sunday night.

A congressional hearing on CAFTA fraud - and its effects on the American textile industry - was held Thursday, with two North Carolina mill owners testifying.

KANNAPOLIS a ' The North Carolina Research Campus has its foot in the door for getting funding for a federal research center in Kannapolis.

Finally, there's a breath of fresh air stirring from North Carolina Democrats. Specifically, Progressive Democrats of North Carolina.

By Chris Hayes RALEIGH - The news of Rep. Bonner Stiller's pending resignation from the NC House of Representatives should be seen as a renewed call for a limit on legislative sessions.

Ed Oa Neal, a retired, U.S. Army command sergeant major, has proposed establishment of a shelter for homeless veterans in downtown Hamlet.

Former Rep. Robin Hayes was appointed to the board of directors of the United Services Organization of North Carolina at its annual retreat in Raleigh on Friday.

Likewise for Supreme Court justices. Find me a tedious brainiac who reads the Constitution exactly as I read it, and I don't care if that person would fit in at the Chapman family reunion.

Former Carolina Panthers safety Mike Minter told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he has decided against seeking the Republican nomination for the North Carolina 8th District seat in 2010.

The North Carolina Heroes Fund names Former Governor's Jim Martin and Jim Hunt as Chairs of its Statewide Advisory Board.

U.S. Sen. Richard Burr's leadership political action committee gave $308,500 to federal candidates last year.

Fueled by donations from labor and business groups, freshman Rep. Larry Kissell raised more money than all but one of North Carolina's U.S. House members during the first three months of the year.

North Carolina Democrats had a good year, but it could have been better. Talkingaboutpolitics.com has learned that Rahm Emmanuel's vaunted Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee missed a chance to take out Robin Hayes.

Will this come back to haunt them, however? Already, industry blog TVNewser is calling him "MSNBC's next potential star" . Forget digging into his personal background, however, it isn't necessary to go any further than what has gone out over the airwaves, in addition to some other questionable public antics.

Someone get Judd Gregg the smelling salts, because he has come down with a case of the vapors : "That would be the Chicago approach to governing: Strong-arm it through.

KANNAPOLIS a ' Cabarrus County EMS has a new home at Kannapolis Fire Department's Station No.

On Tuesday the Senate passed a $410 billion "omnibus" spending bill for 2009, including $148 million in earmarks for special projects in North Carolina and $30 million for the Charlotte area.

Tom Fetzer is running for chairman of the North Carolina GOP. The former Raleigh mayor and longtime political consultant told Dome that he decided to run after learning that former state Sen.

Kannapolis - There is an earmark for Kannapolis in the omnibus spending bill before Congress a ' a $925,000 earmark.

By Jason Saine I've been an observer and participant of local politics for a long time now.