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  Last Thursday, Phil Berger Jr. announced on X that he would not be running for reelection in 2028. What? First Phil Berger Sr. bites the d...

  Former 3-term Congressman Mark Walker couldn't even hang onto the sinecure (job with no duties) that Trump invented for him as a conso...

  Politicians abhor a vacuum as much as nature does, and the sudden concession of NC Senate President Phil Berger late yesterday afternoon h...

    The gambling industry has a two-prong strategy for taking North Carolina: First, the push stage-managed by the Phil Berger clan to put a...

  I always learn stuff from Bryan Anderson's reporting , like the basic statutory process for recounting votes in the Berger/Page upset...

  BREAKING NEWS from Laura Leslie :  North Carolina Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) has called for a recount in his District 26 pr...

  The closeness of the Phil Berger/Sam Page race is a reminder that, even in an era of nationalized politics, state legislative primaries ca...

  Sam Page, March 3, 2026. Photo Bryan Anderson     That sharp tack Jeffrey Billman, the best investigative reporter in the state IMO, has j...

                              Dennis Draughon is on Bluesky .   

  Phil Berger did Donald Trump's bidding, re-gerrymandered US House District 1 to give a Republican a boost over Democrat Don Davis, thu...

  Photo Galen Bacharier, NC Newsline Reportedly , in its last enacted budget Republican state lawmakers shorted the Medicaid program by arou...

  Paul Specht just published on the WRAL site a very long and thorough introduction to everything Berger v. Page, the Republican primary ne...

  You may compare Phil Berger's newly drawn and carefully gerrymandered Congressional map for North Carolina with the current map. Only ...

  Check out the "Berger War Room" on X , billing itself as "the unofficial fan page and rapid response defender of NC Senate ...

  Rockingham Co. Sheriff Sam Page There's a North Carolina campaign report deadline next week, but Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger ...

  According to Lucille Sherman and Jeffrey Billman, writing in Bryan Anderson's Caucus newsletter, Patrick Sebastian, a partner at the p...

  Why, of course I'm trying to follow the developing Republican primary between Phil Berger, paterfamilias to a whole tribe of power-wie...

  First reporter who got this out appears to have been Bryan Anderson (whose Anderson Alerts on Substack is required reading).  Mr. Chief ...

  Phil Berger -- who tried to sneak four new private industry gambling casinos into rural North Carolina, while his own son who's chair ...

  BusinessNC.com interviewed Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page, the man who says he intends to kick Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger to...