Category: NC legislature

Appeals Court decision breathes new life into suit against Berger casino deal

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Brant Clifton

A lot of arms have been twisted in an attempt to shut up critics of the deal to bring multiple new casinos to North Carolina. “The Boss” has got a

Thommy Boy’s nausea-inducing “Tha-Tha” Thour

Posted on July 15, 2025July 15, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Boy, those bridges are burning. Thom Tillis — after all those years of thumbing his nose at us and generally behaving like an anus — is doing his damnedest to

As The Weed Burns: another NC politics-tied drama lawyers up

Posted on July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 by Brant Clifton

There was speaker-turned-congressman Timmy Moore and all that turmoil over Biscuitville and a divorce. There’s an on-going courtroom drama involving the Senate president pro tem’s son and several of his

Speaker Hall: Let DC pick our next US senator FOR US

Posted on July 3, 2025July 3, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Here are those words of wisdom from the boy speaker himself: That’s *interesting* advice coming from a guy who made it to the NC House via a “messy” primary against

Thommy Boy’s Themper Thantrum and the Medicaid Scam

Posted on July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Our senior US senator is all over the national news boo-hooing about the sick state of politics, how he’s tired of it all, and how he wants to spend more

The Sandhills Files: incompetence, cronyism, disrespect for the law (and a tax lien ???)

Posted on June 29, 2025July 14, 2025 by Brant Clifton

*** UPDATED.*** Yes, those are the three (four?) winners in recent developments over on the Airport Road campus. The college just got hit by an embarrassing report from the state

House Majority Leader: Taking Care of HIS business?

Posted on June 28, 2025June 28, 2025 by Brant Clifton

We gave former state Rep. Jamie Boles — a funeral home operator by trade — grief for introducing several pieces of legislation specifically benefiting people who own and operate funeral

Shrimpers show us HOW IT’S DONE.

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It’s not unusual for Raleigh political hacks and politicians to ignore the outside-the-beltline crowd and cozy up to the crowd hanging around Raleigh with the fat bundles of cash. The

Once again, Team Berger panders to big donors while shivving small businesses

Posted on June 21, 2025June 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It’s not hard to imagine a PTSD epidemic sweeping across our state’s commercial fishing business. Organizations — like the CCA — have been stuffing Raleigh politician pockets with cash for

Tillis works with GOP’s left wing to foil Trump efforts to end green energy subsidies

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Here’s yet one more example of our senior US senator standing in the way of the Trump agenda: Phasing out Biden-era green energy tax credits is dividing Senate Republicans as