Retiring senator Buck Newton is hoping to add a new title to his résumè: Attorney General of North Carolina. He has a couple of hurdles to clear in March and in
Continue readingThe two ladies mixing it up to replace the retiring Rick Catlin in this Wilmington area state House seat have certainly made things interesting. New Hanover County school board member
Continue readingWe’ve written before about a politically-connected, well-moneyed PAC that has succeeded in orchestrating a leftist takeover of local Lee County political institutions. They knocked off a conservative legislator and took
Continue readingThe final project list is out. And, as we suspected, the bond issue on the ballot for March 15th is less about road repair and more about passing out pork
Continue readingWe’re told, in a bipartisan fashion, by the ruling class that you have to hand out money and favors in order to get business to commit to doing business in
Continue readingThere is an eye-opening report out from the highly-respected, free market-oriented Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Apparently, something may be rotten in Princess Janet’s kingdom: […] Real state spending per
Continue readingIf you believe the GOPe campaign rhetoric, they’ve got our state headed in a “conservative direction.” *Wow. That sounds great. We must be cutting taxes and the size of government
Continue readingImagine that someone rings your doorbell, announces they are with Mega-Corporation X, and that they are going to give you Y-amount of dollars for your property. You aren’t interested in
Continue readingSome well-plugged in observers in this yellow-dog Republican county say state Rep. Jamie Boles (R) is an incumbent who very well can lose his renomination bid in March. Boles is
Continue readingRaleigh is making it clear who they want to succeed Rick Catlin in Wilmington-centered house district 20. Our pal Lady Liberty has managed to get a copy of an invite
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