Category: NC legislature
NCDOT board: More trouble than it’s worth
In this age of dwindling tax revenue and budgets drowning in red ink, I have a few questions for the new conservative majority in the legislature. Why are we still funding a Human Relations Commission? There are paid full time employees on this commission who…
State Senate GOP blasts Boss Bev on ‘pay to play’
The state Senate GOP majority issued a blistering release today attacking our state’s buffoonish governor for antics that cost The Tar Heel State jobs: Today Continental Tire announced the company’s plan to build a $500 million facility in South Carolina, creating at…
Tillman: Leftists playing games with school $$$ numbers
State senator Jerry Tillman (R-Randolph), the #2 Republican in the state senate and likely Moore County’s next representative in that body, is taking leftist political activists to task for their rhetoric on state education appropriations. Tillman, a former schools administrator, ought to know what he…
Now you’re talking, Mr. Speaker!
NC state House Speaker Thom Tillis (R) recently speculated publicly about selling off state assets — like a hospital and a railroad — to help state government get its financial affairs in order. Of course, the Chapel Hill – Carrboro crowd is P.O.’ed:…
State pushing land deal that could benefit Bev’s son, Dem politicos
The Associated Press is reporting that the state is offering an economic development package to an industry that includes land owned by a team that includes a Democrat state senator and one of Boss Bev’s appointees: A state lawmaker and a group of…
Berger: PLEASE don’t cancel 2012 NC Gov election
I am sure North Carolina Republicans are sitting back and enjoying some rare bad publicity for Madame Governor. State Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) put out this gem in a statement Wednesday: “In light of Gov. Perdue’s support…
City of Fayetteville, columnist: state’s annexation law is racist
You know Leftists and bureaucrats have nearly run out of ammo when they let fly with the ol’ “racism” bomb. Fayetteville Observer columnist Myron Pitts — a young man in training to be the next Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, seeing a pointy…
Gov Bev OK with gay day in May?
In his ill-advised visit to UNC-Chapel Hill law school to defend the state legislature’s approval of a May referendum on a gay marriage prohibition amendment for the state constitution, House Majority Leader Skip Stam let an interesting little nugget slip out that is surely…
One MOORE entrant for the state senate GOP primary?
Stuff keeps coming in over the transom about the state senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Harris Blake of Pinehurst. Recent redistricting moved Blake and Moore County from the current district to District 29, which includes Randolph County and is currently…
Pinehurst’s Cummings to pursue state Senate seat?
My spies within Raleigh political circles, and on the ground here in Moore County and throughout the Sandhills region, tell me retired physician Robin Cummings of Pinehurst is seriously eyeing the state Senate seat currently held by Senator Harris Blake (R-Pinehurst), who is retiring at…
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