Category: Economy

Hide your kids. Hide your cameras. HE’S IN! (BOOYAH!)

Posted on February 29, 2012February 29, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Former congressman Bobby “Boom Boom” Etheridge made it official today — signing on the dotted line in Raleigh to become the 13th candidate for governor of our fair state.

NC’s I-95 tolls to hit MORE than just drivers

Posted on February 28, 2012February 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Legislators and bureaucrats in Raleigh are blowing through funds like a drunken sailor on an extended shore leave. Instead of tightening their belts and trying

NCGOP: Merely a new set of money-changers in the temple?

Posted on February 28, 2012February 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

GOP leaders took power on Jones Street in 2010 with promises of “no more business as usual.” They were propelled into power by an angry Tea Party and frustrated

Study: No connection between fracking and groundwater pollution

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina is looking at a potentially enormous economic boom with fracking. North Dakota is already booming. The energy industry believes that The Tar Heel State

NCDOT: Plenty of $$$$ for Moore County Airport, but not for I-95

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s recently hit the news that the “wise” persons in our state government are going to set up tolls on I-95 to pay for much-needed renovations. So, in

Senator Burr: Having it both ways with BarryO’s stimulus

Posted on February 26, 2012February 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) published a great piece the other day in The Charlotte Observer on the evils of BarryO’s stimulus: Three years ago, President Obama

National Journal: Scott, Gowdy are SC’s most conservative in U.S. House, DeMint ranks 10th in Senate

Posted on February 24, 2012February 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

If you check National Journal’s conservative effectiveness rankings for the U.S. House, you will find The Palmetto State’s most right-leaning legislators tying for 80th place out of 435. Republicans

National Journal: Ellmers is NC’s most conservative Member of Congress

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

National Journal, the non-partisan national publication dedicated to daily coverage of the U.S. Congress, has released its annual ideological rankings of Members of Congress. It appears that the Tar

BarryO: High gas prices STILL the fault of Republicans

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

When Barry was running in 2008 against Grandpa John “You kids get off my lawn” McCain, he told us we could weather the high gas prices with tuneups,

A lesson from Hoke County’s NUGGET-gate ?

Posted on February 19, 2012February 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Outrage and disbelief erupted nationally last week over reports that government inspectors have been inspecting pre-schooler lunches. West Hoke Elementary School –with such poor academic performance that teachers are being