#NCGA: A Common Core food fight?
Want to send blood pressure readings through the roof? Mention those two magical C-words among a crowd of people and stand back to watch the ensuing fireworks. Common Core is
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#NCSEN: ObamaCare is BAD because — um, (WHA…????)
Uncle Karl and American Crossroads GPS have gone to bat for Speaker Thom again. They’re plastering the state’s airwaves with an ad blasting Kay Hagan’s support of ObamaCare. The ad
Continue readingComing Soon To A Theater Near You: THE BIG ‘DOUBLE-CROSS’
Wilmington-area legislators and movie industry types are pretty mad. It looks like incentives for the film industry are not going to survive the state House. These folks REALLY thought they
Continue readingBOHICA Alert: Cost projections show new toll roads to be LITERAL highway robbery
Thom Tillis, Skip Stam, and the McCrory administration have all been singing the praises of HOT lanes and tolls as THE BEST way to pay for future road construction and
Continue reading#NCSEN: A Klingon tries to make it a Five-some
We’ve been hearing about efforts to get former state legislator John Rhodes qualified as a write-in candidate. Now, it appears a Klingon-speaking former town councilman from Indian Trail is trying
Continue reading#NCSEN: Conservative write-in effort kicks into gear
If all goes as one group of activists hopes, North Carolinians will have a FOURTH choice for US Senate this November. Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean
Continue reading#NCSEN: On the road with Thom & Kay, Harry Reid & those dadgum Koch Brothers
GOP US Senate nominee Thom Tillis is in our neck of the woods early next week for a fundraiser at Pinehurst’s National Golf Club. The visit hits right in the
Continue reading#NCGA: Bill reversing 2013 E-verify water-down intro’ed in House
Governor Pat McCrory knocked heads with the General Assembly — and lost — on the issue of waiving the use of E-verify to do residency checks on temporary workers across
Continue reading#NCGA: Another bill watering down E-Verify introduced in House
In 2013, Gov. Pat McCrory lost a veto fight with the legislature over the use of E-Verify for checking citizenship of workers in North Carolina. Late last week, some Republican
Continue reading#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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