#NCSEN: The Longleaf Pine PAC (Kay’s slush fund?)
We’ve heard a lot of belly-aching from the drive-by media about how much money the Koch brothers have put into the Tillis campaign. We’ve heard from the Hagan campaign about
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Drive-by columnist: You righties need to lighten up — Just like WE DO!
Another resident of the South McDowell Street low-testosterone zone has raised his head up to lecture the rest of us on ”civility”: […] Before you lick the stamp on your
Continue reading#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
Continue reading“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 reading#NCSEN: PPP says Hagan grows lead, Tillis holds, Haugh slides a little
Leftist pollster Public Policy Polling has released new numbers on the US Senate race here in the Tar Heel State showing Kay Hagan expanding her lead on Republican Thom Tillis
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 readingA drive-by media Panic Attack over the Poet Laureate
Our Medicaid system is trying to break the bank. The board of elections is swamped with vote fraud complaints. An audit of a powerful state senator’s finances has mysteriously disappeared.
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