The moles are reporting in about the appearance of something in Jones Street’s lower chamber called the “License Plate Subcommittee.” From what I hear, this new entity will be spearheaded
Continue readingTomorrow, dozens of players in the North Mecklenburg business community will travel to our fair capital city to make it clear they do not care for the plan to slap tolls
Continue readingThat’s an idea that intrigues us. Taxes on gambling are paid voluntarily, as opposed to the current confiscatory practices of our state and federal revenue agencies. Doing something like this
Continue readingThe proposal to install tolls on I-77 in northern Mecklenburg County — championed by Pat McCrory and Thom Tillis — has turned into quite a political hot potato. A
Continue readingPolitics is a lot like business in the real world. In business, people form relationships with people because they need something from them. In most cases, those relationships end when
Continue readingPat McCrory never ceases to amaze me. I have never seen anyone in elected office work so hard to tick off each and every possible segment of his or her
Continue readingIt looks like we have quite a food fight brewing among Republicans representing the Greensboro area. Check out this email sent by Rep. John Blust (R) to his colleagues in
Continue readingI happened to stumble across a Blinkin’ Chris commentary on WRAL radio while driving around today. Of course, the blinkin’ one was in his typical ‘damn the republicans’ mode. But
Continue readingCheck out this doozy in the latest version of the budget, H.97, being kicked around Jones Street (p.491, lines 8-9): […] A privilege tax is imposed on a retailer engaged
Continue reading“Who is John Galt? ” — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged ——————————— Bob Dole has been renowned for referring to himself in the third person. Could we have a similar case RIGHT
Continue reading
Recent Comments