Category: NC State Government

#ncga: Phil Berger and, um — THE TEAMSTERS ????

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Don’t you just love it when politicians who know NOTHING about a subject try to lecture people who DO KNOW something about a subject? Law enforcement and military folks get

#ncga: A RINO retreats

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It appears that the bearded RINO will not be lumbering around the North Carolina Senate chamber in 2016 after all. We wrote earlier about how, um, *classy* it is to

#ncpol: Team McCrory playing hardball in Meck toll dispute

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve written extensively about the I-77 toll road dispute in northern Mecklenburg County. it’s been quite heated. It cost — and came close to costing — some area politicians their

Rucho Roars at MeckGOP chairman

Posted on December 14, 2015December 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

A dentist-turned-legislator sounds like he wants to perform a root canal on his county party chairman — without anesthetic. We told you last week about MeckGOP chairman Curtis Watkins trying

#ncpol: John Locke, neutered?

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I’ve had my suspicions about what HAS or HAS NOT been going on within the John Locke Foundation lately. The so-called hotbed of free market thought in North Carolina has

Drive-by fishwrap: Fayetteville can, um, “learn” from Baltimore.

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

You know things are bad when your local driveby fishwrap / birdcage liner starts telling you how your town can LEARN from Baltimore. Yep. The same place immortalized in the

Are public high schools failing our kids?

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There’s a thought-provoking report out that suggests just THAT: I discovered this in an unpublished manuscript at my annual economics conference: “According to Harrigan and Davies, between 1987 to 2007,

#ncpol: Things that make you go HMMMMMM.

Posted on December 11, 2015December 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The state board has unveiled a neat new search feature that allows you to browse campaign filings by TYPE. The search engine allows you to go through all kinds of

#ncpol: Think UNC’s Gene Nichol is bad? Meet Altha Cravey.

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I know. I know. Very similar to “crazy.” We’ve provided a lot of coverage to the saga of Gene Nichol, the alleged law professor at UNC, who appears to

#ncpol: A scandal waiting to happen (Gov. Stanley Roper ???)