North Carolina’s unemployment insurance mess
The Tar Heel State’s unemployment rate exceeds the national average. Ol’ Bev keeps extending unemployment benefits for the state’s long-term unemployed. All of this is going on in
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Category: NC State Government
L’affaire LaRoque gets some federal attention
Sarah Ovaska, at NCPolicyWatch, has been on top of the scandal swirling around state Rep. Stephen Laroque (R-Kinston) since the beginning. Now, she’s confirmed
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Getting rich is NOT a crime
With the rise of Mitt Romney, and the activities of The Occupy movement, and the even more outlandish activities of BarryO and his posse, it is pretty clear that we’re
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And the spending goes on and on and on …
North Carolina is broke — or so we were told during the fight over the state budget during this last session. Stuff got cut out left and
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A rational, common sense look at NCGA v. NCAE
Democrats and the mainstream media (redundant? mutually exclusive?) all over the state are decrying the state legislature’s move to end the teachers’ groups ability to
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Bev booed in Blue Heaven
I spent Tuesday night, in my usual spot in The Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill, watching my beloved Tar Heels dismantle The Miami Hurricanes. As halftime approached,
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Here COMES the judge !!!!
It looks like the state teacher’s union’s judge-shopping efforts have paid off. A Wake County Superior Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking legislation that ends mandatory
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SUE: For those “special” times when you can’t get your way via the democratic process
The state teachers union, in the aftermath of having their cash faucet turned off by the legislature, appears to be calling in
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Pat McCrory’s Mitt Romney Impersonation
It looks like the scheme by North Carolina Democrats to split conservatives from Pat McCrory is well-underway. The North Carolina Democrat Party has launched a
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NC Legislators end union shakedown of teachers; Democrats & media throw major fit
On the N&O’s front page, there was a full color photo of some large, angry Hillary Clinton lookalikes from the NC Association of Educators (NCAE) holding signs that said
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