Category: Politics

RobRielle, N&O joining MSNBC on road to irrelevance

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Just when you think he can’t deliver a bigger face-palm moment, the reporter who: (1) made history by being physically removed from an NCGOP convention, (2) failed to notice Dennis

BOHICA Alert: Cost projections show new toll roads to be LITERAL highway robbery

Posted on June 11, 2014June 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Thom Tillis, Skip Stam, and the McCrory administration have all been singing the praises of HOT lanes and tolls as THE BEST way to pay for future road construction and

#NCSEN: A Klingon tries to make it a Five-some

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been hearing about efforts to get former state legislator John Rhodes qualified as a write-in candidate. Now, it appears a Klingon-speaking former town councilman from Indian Trail is trying

#NCSEN: Conservative write-in effort kicks into gear

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Brant Clifton

If all goes as one group of activists hopes, North Carolinians will have a FOURTH choice for US Senate this November. Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean

# NCGA & the tax shell game: cap THIS tax, then intro a NEW one

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Brant Clifton

A couple of weeks ago, the frontline soldiers of Raleigh’s conservative revolution were targeting privilege taxes — tagging them as harmful to the economy. Now, we have the “honorables” on

#NCGA: From BAD to WORSE on film incentives

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Brant Clifton

There has been a steady drumbeat over the years to end the strategy of subsidies and tax incentives in economic development. Critics suggest — rightly so — that states will

#NCGOP: Convention pre-game show

Posted on June 6, 2014June 6, 2014 by Brant Clifton

State Republicans are headed off to the furthest western regions of our state this weekend to hold their convention and plot a course for the next year. Observers are worried

#NCSEN: On the road with Thom & Kay, Harry Reid & those dadgum Koch Brothers

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Brant Clifton

GOP US Senate nominee Thom Tillis is in our neck of the woods early next week for a fundraiser at Pinehurst’s National Golf Club. The visit hits right in the

#NCGA: Bill reversing 2013 E-verify water-down intro’ed in House

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Governor Pat McCrory knocked heads with the General Assembly — and lost — on the issue of waiving the use of E-verify to do residency checks on temporary workers across

#NCGA: Bill limiting elected official voting power has Harnett County riled up