Carol Markey has been part of the Catholic church since as long as she can remember. She's also faced all kinds of trials, the latest one was a go-around with tonsil cancer.
That's partly what motivated her to write to Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, asking for a ticket to Pope Francis' address to Congress.
"I did think, 'Oh well, this won't happen. She probably won't even read it,'"… Read more »
[Friday], in a loud and chilling statement, every Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives but five voted against a measure that protects babies born alive after a failed abortion. Thankfully, Rep. Trent Franks’s Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act passed the House anyway, with unanimous Republican support. The bill makes it a criminal offense for an abortionist to… Read more »
Carol Markey didn’t give it a lot of thought when she dashed off an email to U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx a couple weeks ago, asking for a chance to see Pope Francis speak to Congress.
“I wrote a one-liner because I didn’t think I could win anything like that,” she said. “I thought I could stand out in the mob when his motorcade went by. I didn’t have any dream of seeing him up… Read more »
Applying for federal financial aid each year is often a mystifying, excruciating process for college-bound students and their families.
It starts with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, a confounding document with roughly 130 questions about a family’s finances. The task is so difficult that in North Carolina, financial aid counselors volunteer their time at… Read more »
The leading pro-life member of Congress has introduced legislation that would ban dismemberment abortions that tear babies limb from limb.
Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey introduced the Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act (H.R. 3515) in the U.S. House of Representatives to nationally ban dismemberment abortion, an abortion method that involves using steel tools to tear apart a… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th, will host a U.S. Service Academy Day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 26 at the Clemmons Branch Library, 3554 Clemmons Road. The event will help familiarize students with the application and nomination process for applying to the nation's five military service academies.
“North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District has a proud tradition of military service,… Read more »
I stopped Hubba Bubba on the midway of Iredell County Fairgrounds on Monday afternoon, soon after the 5 p.m. opening of this year's weeklong 80th annual event. I wondered if I should call him Hubba or Mr. Bubba or what. Anyway, after a while I realized I'd interviewed him before. I think it was a couple of years ago. And, as if on cue; as if we'd rehearsed the bit, the featured clown at… Read more »
The bigwigs and the beauty queens gathered at the gate of the Iredell County Fairgrounds to cut the ribbon on the 80th Iredell County Agricultural Fair on Monday evening.
Event Chairman Jim Head rounded up folks from every level of government to help kick off the fair.
Troutman Mayor Elbert Richardson welcomed folks to his town.
"I haven't been doing this for all 80 years,"… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th, hasn’t officially announced her bid for a seventh term representing North Carolina’s 5th U.S. House District. But she left no doubt Wednesday she would seek re-election in 2016.
And though no Democratic opponent has surfaced to mount a challenge in this largely Republican district, Foxx said she anticipates a race.
“I feel certain I will have… Read more »
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R.-N.C.) indicated through a spokesperson her interest in chairing the House Education and Workforce Committee.
Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), who currently heads the panel, announced earlier today that he would not seek reelection in 2016, opening a swing seat in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District and a vacancy in the committee.
“Yes, she is interested in… Read more »
