Thom wants your Thip$$$
Our huge national embarrassment is opening his mouth one more time for his adoring fans in the drive-by media. One would figure Thom Tillis would have learned his fawning drive-by
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Category: NC State Government
The Sandhills Files: 1 bad audit, 2 drive-bys, and the fall-out
It took a week for our award-winning local newspaper (based on Pennsylvania Avenue in Southern Pines) to produce a story on the stinker of an audit the state slapped Sandhills
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Dismissal of lawsuit against Team Berger upheld. (Uncle Phil is pleased.)
It must be nice to preside over hearings about your own job performance and to stomp any and all of those complaints into the dirt. Only in state government. Only
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No matter how hard as you try, it’s STILL a pig in lipstick
The competing state spending plans in Raleigh are what we’re talking about. Majority Republicans in each legislative chamber are beating on each other — trying to paint the other side
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Ex-Mrs. ‘Round Rev’ says ‘Round Rev’ paid her alimony from his nonprofit
(Ruh-roh! *Is THIS that Karma thingie we’ve been reading about?*) The patron saint of the WRAL newsroom – the personification of the Seven Deadly Sins, himself — appears to have
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The long con to eventually debut new casinos in North Carolina
It’s a bit amusing to watch the – um – *honorables* on Raleigh’s Jones Street beat their chests and compete with each other on who is the biggest and truest
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Charlotte politico indicted for Covid $$$ fraud. (Tip of the iceberg in NC?)
The US attorney for NC’s Western district has bagged a nice-sized target: A federal grand jury in Charlotte has returned a criminal indictment charging Tiawana Brown, 53, and her daughters,
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The Sandhills Files: Financial reporting errors worth HOW MUCH ???
It seems like our local institution of higher learning here in Moore County has some ‘splainin’ to do. State auditor Dave Boliek’s crew reviewed Sandhills Community College’s financial statements for
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Dismissal of lawsuit against Team Berger by judge tied to Berger + Moore appealed. (Uncle Phil is NOT pleased.)
Don’t pop those champagne corks over in the corner office juuquuuuust yet. The Rockingham County candidate who filed suit against a whole host of key players in Phil Berger’s political
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“Republican ” state treasurer leads coup against transparency for state health plan. (Uncle Phil is pleased.)
Dale Folwell served the people of North Carolina well during his time in Raleigh. Whether it was in the General Assembly, at the Employment Security Commission, or at the state
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