RALEIGH — North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore says he’d prefer a statewide vote early next year on borrowing for road construction and government infrastructure, rather than this fall as Gov. Pat McCrory wants. Moore told a county commissioners meeting Wednesday ...

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RALEIGH — The North Carolina General Assembly opened to script Wednesday, with Republicans still squarely in charge of the legislature, electing their top officers without a challenge and leaders keeping to conservative themes and calls to work together. The House elected Rep. Tim ...

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RALEIGH — Tim Moore has spent almost all his life in Kings Mountain, an old textile town— more than 150 miles southwest of Raleigh and 30 miles west of Charlotte — with perhaps more in common with South Carolina than North Carolina. Its name ...

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ASHEBORO — North Carolina Republican lawmakers on Saturday picked state Rep. Tim Moore of Cleveland County to become the next leader of the state House of Representatives. House Republicans selected the 44-year-old Kings Mountain attorney and metal recycling company owner as their nominee ...

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