#NCGA: WWThD (What Will Thom Do?)
The North Carolina Senate has voted to send one heck of a hot potato over to the NC House. The economic development package creates a new method for handing out
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“EAT” your toll road. It’s, um, GOOD for you!
Gov. Pat McCrory trotted out NCDOT secretary Tony Tata to defend the wildly controversial I-77 “HOT lane” tolling project in Mecklenburg County. (McCrory, House speaker Thom Tillis, and speaker pro
Continue readingThe REAL challenge in the effort to shrink government in North Carolina
WUNC radio put together a rather eye-opening report last week about the importance of teacher pay. The purpose of the article — in the minds of the reporters and their
Continue reading#NCGA: Captain Obvious files his copy
McCrory rift with Senate may stall NC budget. Ya Think ???? That was the eloquently succinct and prescient headline atop the latest missive from McClatchy-Charlotte’s genial geriatric Jim Morrill.
Continue readingPoet-gate and the sad state of media and politics in North Carolina
Well, the testosterone-challenged crowd in the McClatchy newsrooms have claimed the scalp of a poor, defenseless woman who made the horrific “mistake” of allowing Gov, Pat to appoint her poet
Continue reading#NCGA: No reasonable expectation of privacy while on public street? (Um, Fourth Amendment?)
I am seriously #SMH on this one: […] Sen. Tamara Barringer, a Cary Republican who is also a law professor, said there is a right to privacy but not always
Continue readingA drive-by media Panic Attack over the Poet Laureate
Our Medicaid system is trying to break the bank. The board of elections is swamped with vote fraud complaints. An audit of a powerful state senator’s finances has mysteriously disappeared.
Continue readingMonkey Business Update: The state’s sea level rise study
We’ve posted previously about the do-over ordered by the legislature on the projections of sea level changes along the coast. This information is important because it can affect insurance rates,
Continue reading#NCSEN: Tilting Democrat?
That’s the word of DC-based political prognosticator Stuart Rothenberg on this year’s battle to unseat Miss Kay. Hagan has been holding a steady lead in the polls since shortly after
Continue readingSound the alarm: The “poetry community” is rankled. That’s right. Rankled.
The testosterone-deprived newsroom at McClatchy Central in Raleigh is up in arms. Gov. Pat picked a new poet laureate and did not bother to consult with them or any of
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