#ncga: Lights, Camera … WELFARE !!!!
Well, they approved $45 million in corporate welfare after turning down TWENTY MILLION for being too much last session. Movie incentives also got shot down. So far, this year it
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How long will we keep being Charlie Brown?
We all remember the famous cartoons from our childhood. Lucy was always faking sincerity — promising to hold the football for Charlie Brown to kick. Every time she would convince
Continue reading#ncga: Who the #@*$ is in charge here ?????
From 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 reading#ncga: A mad rush to leech on to the state employee health plan
Senator 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 reading#ncga: YET ANOTHER screwy deal on jail food service
What 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 readingEllmers cheerleading for No Child Left Behind reauthorization
Tea 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 reading#ncga: Emails reveal Gov. Pat’s $45 million giveaway on the ropes in House
Pat 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 reading$211,0000-Plus per year to teach TWO CLASSES ???????
That’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 reading‘The senator from Thime Warner has the floor …’
Word 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
Continue readingSteve Forbes ON THE MONEY in re: gas tax
In Washington, we have REPUBLICANS seriously considering raising the federal gas tax. In Raleigh, we’ve had Republicans actually push a gas tax hike through the state Senate. One of the
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