Category: NC State Government

#ncga: No ID? Give them an absentee ballot and move on.

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Brant Clifton

A group of Democrat senators has introduced a bill calling for JUST that. Given that the GOP runs the upper chamber, I would lean toward thinking that this bill has

#ncga: Common Core, coal ash commissions (and their price tags)

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I’ve never been a big fan of study commissions organized by politicians. They are almost always easy ways out for politicians looking to avoid having to take a tough stand

#ncga: Instead of tax hikes & corporate welfare, why not tax reform?

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Proponents of state ”economic incentives” and the so-called “gas tax cut” claim that we need to enact all of this in order to stay competitive with our neighbors. The really

#ncga: Gas tax hike for US. Tax breaks for airlines & data centers.

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Legislators are spinning us that a lot of road work needs to be done statewide, but there just isn’t enough money out there to do it. So, they are selling

#ncga: Crowd-funding, an interesting option in economic development debate

Posted on February 16, 2015February 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Politicians these days are all crowing about being “job creators.” Gov. Pat McCrory has emptied out the corporate welfare accounts at the Department of Commerce, and he’s coming to us

#ncga: The era of ‘tax-and-spend’ Republicans

Posted on February 15, 2015February 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I took a look at that bill –portrayed in the media as a gas tax cut — that is really a gas tax hike. It lumps all kinds of changes

#ncga: Things looking rather dicey in House for NC Chamber’s gas tax hike

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Our sources in the lower chamber on Jones Street tell us that the vote on the gas tax hike / ”revenue stabilization” nonsense that passed the GOP-dominated Senate with flying

#ncga: No money for roads. PLENTY of money for leadership staff salaries.

Posted on February 13, 2015February 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The “conservative revolution” in Raleigh is telling us the state is so cash-poor that it can’t afford some vital road repairs and construction. Yet, the folks at the AP are

#ncga: Veteran Dem campaign flack running House GOP campaign?

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It does make you wonder what’s going on in the lower chamber on Jones Street. In 2013, then-speaker Thom Tillis and his team set up a non-profit called North Carolina

ECU’s med school $$$ woes? (Sad, but problem is BIGGER than another govt bailout can fix.)

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The drive-bys are telling us that the medical school at East Carolina is in deep trouble: The chancellor of East Carolina University says the medical school in Greenville could close