Category: NC State Government

“Common-sense conservative,” eh?

Posted on March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 by Brant Clifton

*That sounds familiar. * (Masthead. *COUGH* Masthead.) Two young legislators – Ben Moss and Jon Hardister – are running for state labor commissioner. THIS got posted on Twitter: Interesting. Ben

NCGOPe, NC Chamber work with Dems to boo$t gov’t. child care

Posted on March 14, 2023March 14, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Pumping more money into government-subsidized child care centers. THAT is the latest offering from our “conservative revolution” in Raleigh. Medicaid expansion and now increased government cash to child care centers

State of The State silliness

Posted on March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 by Brant Clifton

I know I’m a little late getting to this. (But here I am.) Our silly governor’s state of the state speech is important to folks living and working between Jones

Folwell causing heartburn in the Jones Street ‘swamp’

Posted on March 11, 2023 by Brant Clifton

“Dale Folwell is causing a lot of trouble for me.” THAT is a quote uttered very recently from the mouth of a very powerful Republican leader in The North Carolina

Look what can happen when an elected one hears from and listens to REAL PEOPLE.

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Quite often, politicians take heat for voting one way and then going the other way. Sometimes, it takes a visit away from the political silly circus to get your head

North Carolina now an “ABORTION DESTINATION”

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Brant Clifton

So sayeth The NY Times: Clinic by clinic, county by county and up to the highest levels of state government, no state embodies the nation’s post-Roe upheaval like North Carolina.

campaign 2024: Tire-kickers and test-drivers galore

Posted on March 2, 2023March 7, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It’s that time of the year everyone dreaming of seeing their name on a ballot – or actually getting elected to something — lives for. it’s time to get your

BOHICA: A Medicaid expansion “deal” !!!

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Brant Clifton

The drive-by media is excited. So are all the folks in and out of government who have their hands in the tax-dollar trough. Uncle Phil and Speaker Timmy have reached

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Leadership 101

Posted on March 1, 2023March 2, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It’s pretty sad when folks have to come in to town to educate your elected leaders on how to run stuff. But THAT, my friends, is what state senator Tom

‘Period Poverty’ and ‘The Tampon Tax’

Posted on February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 by Brant Clifton

You’ve got to give liberals props for their creativity. They have an amazing ability to spin some aspect of life to make it look like such a crisis that WE