#NCGA: Taking care of (your own) business?
Jamie Boles is a long-time, respected funeral home director here in Moore County. He got elected to the state House in 2008 by primarying an incumbent legislator who he had
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The politics of pre-school
The richest man in North Carolina was in DC to demand even more taxpayer-funded preschool: Jim Goodnight, the CEO of Cary software company SAS, spoke at
Continue reading#NCSEN: Court ruling makes Rep. Brawley’s monopoly accusation against Tillis stick
State Rep. Robert Brawley (R-Iredell) made headlines back in May thanks to a confrontation with Speaker Thom Tillis. That confrontation resulted in Brawley losing his committee chairmanship. (It’s unclear —
Continue readingEl Sr. Tillis bajo el fuego de la inmigración opiniones
Yep. Ol’ Thom is getting some scrutiny on the issue of amnesty / immigration reform. Nationally-renowned conservative pundit Ann Coulter called attention to Tillis’ views today: I
Continue readingSee June Spin. Spin, June, Spin.
Well, it appears that public education is back in the news. The North Carolina Bankers Association — of all groups — has endorsed the Common Core curriculum for the state’s
Continue readingConservative revolutionaries? Try drunken sailors.
Chris Fitzsimon, Bill Barber and the gang want us to believe that the GOP majority in Raleigh has cut state government to the bone. Thom Tillis — the
Continue readingWayne Goodwin’s free pass on O-Care catastrophe in NC
The remnants of our state’s mainstream media and their partners over at BluePrintNC have been obsessed with beating on NCDHHS secretary Aldona Wos. We got warnings — just before October
Continue readingSouthern Pines Police seeking private alternative to Roy Cooper’s crime lab
The typically peaceful Moore County hamlet of Southern Pines has been rocked recently with some troubling violent crimes. In response to some bad publicity and questions from
Continue readingYou can shift money around AND change the entity’s name — but it’s STILL a bureaucratic, money-bleeding mess
Earlier this year, we got bombarded with information about what a cronyism-infested money-wasting mess the state’s Rural Center was. State commerce secretary Sharon Decker was in town recently on one
Continue readingAn angle for the NCGA to save us from ObamaCare?
The recently completed Nullify Now gathering in Raleigh caused some people to sit up and take notice. The mainstream media, of course, has been mocking it for all
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