WataugaWatch

  There are arch conservatives and MAGAts and slick campaign operatives running in the very crowded Republican primary for lieutenant govern...

  Last night in B'Rock, NC.

  It was no secret that the Republican leadership in the NC Senate essentially put a knife in former Dist. 45 Senator Deanna Ballard's b...

  Deanna Ballard Though Sen. Jeff Jackson dropped out of the US Senate race and cleared the path for Cheri Beasley, she still has -- believe...

  Saw this headline in the High Country Press the morning after Thanksgiving, just in time for giving thanks: "Sen. Deanna Ballard Sec...

  Word filtering out of Raleigh -- and by "filtering" I mean strained and adulterated before it reaches these nether regions of th...

  Former Republican state party chair and news reporter for the Carolina Journal, Dallas Woodhouse -- whose sources inside NC conservative c...

  Here's the new map for the 50 NC Senate seats. Watauga is entirely within the new 47th District. The Princeton Gerrymandering Project ...

  Travis Fain, reporting for WRAL : Ray Pickett.  ...Greater Carolina is a 501(c)(4), one of several "dark money" groups that can ...

The full impact of this new NC Senate district map will take some time to reveal itself. Will note here that Senate District 7, in which ...

Senator Deanna Ballard (District 45) belongs to the Republican Party. The Republican Party has always preached that local government know...

The billboard industry in North Carolina has tried at least three times in recent years to get massive new power to override local laws a...

Ray Russell Thanks to Real Facts NC for opening the window a crack on what NC House and Senate races might be in most contention next ...

At a healthcare townhall meeting last evening at the Watauga Medical Center attended by both Rep. Ray Russell and Sen. Deanna Ballard, ac...

Sen. Wesley Meredith, one of Phil Berger's top lieutenants in Raleigh, just discovered ("No way! I couldn't have! I didn...

Wes Luther You may not know that Democrat Brandon Anderson withdrew from the NC Senate race against Deanna Ballard within the timefram...

Nothing matters as much as this fall's General Election. With the five conservatives on the US Supreme Court decreeing that DJT ca...

Rob Schofield decries the rush of new laws in this current session of the North Carolina General Assembly -- laws written in secret and so...

"I don't know about you, but I've had it with establishment politicians," says Sarah Palin in an endorsement message poste...

Big news for the 45th NC Senate District, which includes Watauga, Wilkes, Allegheny, Ashe, and Avery counties. Brandon Anderson, who is ...