RTP-area toll road lightly used, bleeding money. State: Let’s do SOME MORE !!!
Guess what? Evidence is suggesting that toll road projects — like the one proposed for I-77 in Mecklenburg County — may not be the
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The NC House: Seems like Old Times
Neil Simon had a pretty successful movie in the 70s by that name. It’s too bad we’re not talking about a comedy classic here. Deals being cut behind
Continue readingDrive-by state-run media, Dems bemoan “erosion of local control.” (Seriously. No foolin’.)
Yes, I had to do a double-take this morning after reading the lastest spin coming out of state-run media. Granted, the newly-empowered GOP has not done the
Continue readingMcClatchy crayonista fawns over “Big Boy” Barber’s performance art at NCGA
Attention Tea Partiers: McClatchy’s crayon corps says the aging former hippies, now suckling at the government teat from their tenured university positions, screaming and
Continue readingIs the heavy hand of Thom Tillis reaching into Cabarrus County politics?
Think back to 2006 with me. We had a conservative firebrand GOP legislator, representing a district near Charlotte, who was making headlines by criticizing the leadership of
Continue readingPhil Berger, Senate filet the state tax code, while Thom Tillis triangulates
Bill Clinton staged an incredible comeback in 1996, following the HillaryCare fiasco, by practicing triangulation — positioning himself somewhere between the liberalism of his fellow Democrats and the
Continue readingThe disappearance of Dan Forest
The 2012 election cycle didn’t offer a lot for Tea Partiers to get excited about. One candidate we could embrace was a tough-talking, passionate architect-turned-amateur-politician from Raleigh named Dan Forest.
Continue readingLet’s see. Blocking incompetents from voting is — CONTROVERSIAL ???
Yep. I find that hard to believe, as well. We’ve documented the story about mentally-handicapped people being hauled to the polls on election day to “cast votes.” There is a
Continue readingRED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT: Thom Tillis, NCGA’s heavy-handed traffic cop
In the run-up to the 2010 elections, we heard a lot of sob stories from NCGA Republicans about how heavy-handed and unfair the Democrats were to them when they
Continue readingNCGA Insiders: We ALL got Gambling $$$$$, bosses said it was OK
McClatchy and the rest of the nearly-extinct legacy media are trying SO hard to paint this whole “scandal” regarding campaign donations to state legislators from an indicted
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