#NCGA: Even MORE surrender on taxes?
This week the Republican majority on Jones Street slapped an excise tax on the sale of e-cigarettes. (That’s ON TOP of the sales tax already collected.) In the Senate, the
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#NCSEN: A conservative write-in campaign?
In 2006, Thom Tillis ousted fellow Republican and incumbent John Rhodes in a nasty primary fight for a Mecklenburg County state House seat. In 2014, Rhodes COULD end up making
Continue reading#NCSEN: A sock puppet fight over climate change
US Senator Kay Hagan (D- NC NY) — affectionately known in many of these parts as Chuck Schumer’s Sock Puppet™– lashed out at GOP nominee Thom Tillis — recently promoted to
Continue reading#NCGA: Skip Stam endorses toll roads
State House speaker Pro Tem Skip Stam has posted an endorsement of toll roads on his official site — which still IDs him as the “North Carolina House Republican Leader”.
Continue reading#NCGA: House GOP’s anti-tax cred up in smoke with e-cigarette vote
There was a time when the GOP was recognized as the group who would cut your taxes, shrink government, and back the bureaucracy off of your case. Well, it’s funny
Continue readingStrach: state elections board gets investigation help. Hartsell probe STILL pending.
It appears the NC State Board of Elections is getting some investigative assistance. It’s a good thing: they’ve got a quarter million pending cases that need to be worked. State
Continue readingThe Brawley Censure: A parting shot from Speaker Thom
State House Republican leaders tried hard to spin the censure of one of their colleagues yesterday as anything but a vendetta executed at the order of Speaker Thom Tillis. We
Continue reading#NCSEN: “I want to be NUMBER ONE.”
Well, state House speaker and Republican US Senate nominee has wasted little time in announcing his goals — explaining why we should send him to DC for six years. First,
Continue readingIs SOMEONE’S Potomac Fever screwing over NC’s microbrewers?
A Greensboro TV station ran a report about a local restauranteur frustrated about not being able to sell the beer he, himself, brews. State law requires wholesalers to be inserted into
Continue reading#NCGA: Medicaid FOR EVERYBODY !!!
Estimates for Medicaid’s shortfall in North Carolina are as high as $140 million. But that’s not stopping some of the honorables on Jones Street from proposing a dramatic expansion of
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