#NCGA: WWThD (What Will Thom Do?)
The North Carolina Senate has voted to send one heck of a hot potato over to the NC House. The economic development package creates a new method for handing out
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“EAT” your toll road. It’s, um, GOOD for you!
Gov. Pat McCrory trotted out NCDOT secretary Tony Tata to defend the wildly controversial I-77 “HOT lane” tolling project in Mecklenburg County. (McCrory, House speaker Thom Tillis, and speaker pro
Continue readingThe REAL challenge in the effort to shrink government in North Carolina
WUNC radio put together a rather eye-opening report last week about the importance of teacher pay. The purpose of the article — in the minds of the reporters and their
Continue reading#NCGA: Captain Obvious files his copy
McCrory rift with Senate may stall NC budget. Ya Think ???? That was the eloquently succinct and prescient headline atop the latest missive from McClatchy-Charlotte’s genial geriatric Jim Morrill.
Continue readingPoet-gate and the sad state of media and politics in North Carolina
Well, the testosterone-challenged crowd in the McClatchy newsrooms have claimed the scalp of a poor, defenseless woman who made the horrific “mistake” of allowing Gov, Pat to appoint her poet
Continue reading#NCGA: No reasonable expectation of privacy while on public street? (Um, Fourth Amendment?)
I am seriously #SMH on this one: […] Sen. Tamara Barringer, a Cary Republican who is also a law professor, said there is a right to privacy but not always
Continue readingMonkey Business Update: The state’s sea level rise study
We’ve posted previously about the do-over ordered by the legislature on the projections of sea level changes along the coast. This information is important because it can affect insurance rates,
Continue readingGov. Pat takes a page from Thad Cochran’s political playbook
In Mississippi, when incumbent US senator Thad Cochran appeared to be going down in flames to Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel, GOP establishment types sold their souls and threw in
Continue reading#NCGA: Looking to cut? WHY NOT UNC ???
The state budget is on the mind of a lot of Raleigh-watchers and insiders. How to get pay raises for teachers has been a major sticking point on reaching an
Continue readingPat sounds like Bev.
In 2012, Bev Perdue came to the conclusion that she had enough of a GOP majority on Jones Street and escaped Raleigh to the safe confines of Harvard’s Kennedy School
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