HOT lanes have taxpayers hot under the collar
North Carolina legislators seriously talked up tolls on I-95 in 2011 and 2012, but that idea got shot down by Renee Ellmers, Mike McIntyre, a number of
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Kudos to Goolsby on Racial Justice Act
While the state House leadership is talking about watering stuff down, slowing things down, appeasing the Democrats to “get stuff done,” at least one state Senator is
Continue readingThe Morgan-Black clique rides again in Raleigh?
The dictation pool in the McClatchy newsroom has regurgitated a press release talking about a new “House Republican group”: A group formed by the N.C.
Continue readingWhat’s good for San Juan COULD be good for Charlotte
Raleigh’s “conservative revolution” is undertaking an effort to take the management of Charlotte’s Douglas International Airport from a city authority and transfer it to a REGIONAL authority. *Oh, Goody. Let’s
Continue readingReading the tea leaves on Gov. Pat’s personnel moves
A recent personnel shuffle at NCDOT caught my attention. According to media reports, Deputy DOT secretary for transit Paul Morris was “removed” by newly-appointed DOT secretary Tony
Continue readingBan bare boobs. Legalize Pot. (The Carolina Comeback?)
OK. We’re billions in debt. HHS is in shambles literally and fiscally. ObamaCare is breathing down our neck from DC, as is an effort to wipe out our
Continue readingMcCrory “undefined”? Nope. We’ve got him figured out.
McClatchy seems to be quite puzzled by the mystery that is Pat McCrory. Is he “the centrist mayor of North Carolina’s largest city who campaigned as someone able to
Continue readingTurf wars and other tripe
Let’s count all of the various state law enforcement authorities we have here in North Carolina. We have DMV enforcement — which goes after trucks that dodge weigh
Continue readingBetter Late Than Never to The ObamaCare Fight
Gov. Pat apparently has seen the light (or, more likely, the statewide polling or the whip counts in the state House) and come over from the dark side. Until today,
Continue readingUgly Power Grabs vs. PRETTY ONES
Our local paper — the first and only lesbian-owned and -operated thrice weekly Nobel Prize-nominated community paper in The Carolinas — is beside itself about those dastardly Republicans
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