Our cadre of spies on Jones Street has struck pay-dirt once again. We have in our clutches a March 6 email authored by Mollie Young, House Speaker Tim Moore’s director of communications. The
Continue readingWell, they approved $45 million in corporate welfare after turning down TWENTY MILLION for being too much last session. Movie incentives also got shot down. So far, this year it
Continue readingWe all remember the famous cartoons from our childhood. Lucy was always faking sincerity — promising to hold the football for Charlie Brown to kick. Every time she would convince
Continue readingFrom what Jones Street insiders are telling me, Cumberland County Rep. Rick Glazier (D) is the closest thing to a leader in the General Assembly’s lower chamber. And HE is
Continue readingSenator Bill Rabon is quite the trailblazer. We reported earlier on his efforts to get the town employees of Southport — his hometown — onto the state employees’ health plan.
Continue readingWhat is it with cutting special insider deals on feeding jail inmates? We reported earlier on an effort in the House to seek a no-bid deal for food service to
Continue readingTea Party and anti-Common Core activists are up in arms over the proposed Student Success Act (HR 5) under consideration in the Congress. The legislation basically extends the life of
Continue readingPat McCrory’s North Carolina Competes Act is undergoing a fight for its life in the General Assembly’s lower chamber. The House deep-sixed a request from the governor last session
Continue readingThat’s right, folks. The drive-by media, already trying to paint liberal gasbag and self-anointed “poverty” expert Gene Nichol as some Christ-like martyr, let this little gem slip: […] Nichol is paid
Continue readingWord from Washington today is that freshman U.S. senator Thom Tillis is upset with the Federal Communications Commission. Why, you ask? Let’s find out: U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., is
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