Category: NC legislature
NC prosecutors seek an end to ‘Racial Justice Act’
North Carolina’s elected prosecutors are seeking the legislature’s assistance in overturning one of the worst travesties to ever pass through Jones Street: The Legislature should act quickly to repeal a new law that gives death row inmates another way to challenge…
Laroque defamation suit gone, his firm ponies up $17K in fines
The Raleigh-based leftist group NC Policywatch is staying on top of the ordeal swirling around state Rep. Stephen Laroque (R-Kinston and a close political ally of SpeakerrrrrRichardMorgan™), which is looking — and smelling — fishier by the day: State Rep. Stephen…
Sounds like somebody’s getting a little fussy …
Boy, you ought to hear the Raleigh press corps — whining like a bunch of babies. The mean old Republicans in charge of things in the NC legislature have scheduled business for Monday, and WON’T guarantee that something newsworthy like…
D.C. Dems straddle fence on union vs. non-union labor at Charlotte 2012 convention
North Carolina is one of the least-unionized states in the country. The Democrat Party, which owes the unions BIG TIME, is holding its 2012 national convention in Charlotte, the largest city in one of the least-unionized states. How do you…
The Pilot parrots state Dem talking points …
It is ASTOUNDING how much the staff editorials in our thrice-weekly Pulitzer Prize-winning local paper mirror the rhetoric on MSNBC and the spin of the state Democrat Party. The latest Pilot editorial beats that dead horse about ‘extreme’ Republican budget cuts:…
NC redistricting: Here come the sore losers …
If at first you don’t get your way — sue, sue sue. The North Carolina Democrat Party has stepped up to the plate with its lawyers to sue over the redistricting plan recently approved by the Feds. The plaintiffs include…
NC redistricting: Good to go!
The US Department of Justice has put its stamp of approval on new General Assembly and congressional for North Carolina — despite a computer glitch that left a handful of communities unassigned to a legislative district: The U.S. Department of Justice gave preclearance…
The 411 on North Carolina’s ‘Golden Leaf’ fund
You hear mentions in passing in statewide news stories about something called “The Golden Leaf’ fund. In this video, Jeanette Doran, a staff attorney at the NC Institute for Constitutional Law, offers a quick, layman’s terms explanation about this grant-awarding entity.
New State law on campaign signs
In August, the state legislature enacted a law which should have a significant impact on political campaigns and local efforts to police sign ordinances: Towns and municipalities no longer have jurisdiction over some campaign signs placed on their borders. In August, the N.C….
NC Teacher Job Loss Misinformation
The Raleigh-based Civitas Institute has released an interesting study that contradicts the spin from leftists and their media comrades about those mean ol’ Republicans and their state budget cuts: An August 31st press release by the Department of Public Instruction declared that this fall, the…
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