Category: NC legislature

“Federal subpoenas! Get your hot and fresh federal subpoenas right here!”

Posted on August 23, 2024August 23, 2024 by Brant Clifton

A federal grand jury subpoena ranks right there with a notice of an IRS audit on the list of THINGS NO ONE WANTS TO SEE. It appears that some well-known

Jo$h $tein i$ expen$ive.

Posted on August 19, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Attorney General Josh Stein has built quite a reputation for refusing to represent the state when it is sued by liberal activists. He’s also been known to run lovingly —

An Ethics Fairy encore: A copy of a complaint filed about Jason Saine, et. al.

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Thank you, Ethics Fairy. (Wherever you may be, right now.) We ran the story just the other day about the filing of said complaint. (We still don’t have the name

Ethics fairy visits Jason Saine, files complaints with state and fed investigators

Posted on August 8, 2024 by Brant Clifton

The chubby little toad from Lincoln County has been mired in just about everything unseemly that has oozed through the Jones Street Puzzle Palace in recent years. The gambling industry

Folwell: State health plan insolvent by 2026

Posted on August 8, 2024August 8, 2024 by Brant Clifton

That’s the dire warning from our current state treasurer: The health plan that covers hundreds of thousands of state employees, retirees and their family members faces a drastic shortfall —

Non-profits and the havoc they create (with our cash)

Posted on August 3, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Government seems to do a masterful job of worsening every situation into which it inserts itself. With the Balanced Nutrition saga, we are seeing a heck of a case study

‘Big Mark’ opens fire on the Department of Health & Human Services

Posted on August 1, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Our lieutenant governor — and GOP nominee for governor — has gone public with his belief that a ‘Democrat-run weaponized government agency’ is behind the troubles facing his recently shuttered

America’s worst press spokesman TRIES to defend his beleaguered boss.

Posted on July 30, 2024 by Brant Clifton

And you thought ol’ Karine at The White House was bad. We started looking at Balanced Nutrition in early-to-mid 2023. There’s evidence to suggest state authorities were looking at it

(SIGH.) Gomer is STAYING.

Posted on July 29, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Governor Gomer Pyle wants all of us to think he’s taking himself out of the running to be Kamala’s right-hand man. Translation: Ol’ Roy has heard who the finalist(s) is/are,

UNC’s million dollar man (And you wonder why college is so @#*$% expensive.)

Posted on July 27, 2024July 27, 2024 by Brant Clifton

I’ve never understood Peter Hans. He’s never really been anything all that spectacular. He bounces from sweet GOP patronage job to sweet GOP patronage job — this legislator’s top aide,