Thom & Renee & The VA: Great Minds thinking alike
Providing for veterans’ health care is the least we can do for the multitudes who have served and sacrificed in uniform for this country. It’s incredibly unfortunate that we are
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City of Burlington, local church team up to issue IDs to illegals
The Burlington Police Department is hosting a Spanish-language “Community-based Strategic Planning” session. So, if you no habla espanol, you will be out of luck trying to understand what’s happening at
Continue readingMo’ Monkey Business? : The Madison County Jail
We reported a while back about some, um, “creative” maneuvering by the Madison County board of commissioners. (Robert’s Rules of Order? We don’t need no stinkin’ Robert’s Rules of Order!)
Continue reading#ncga: A GOP surrender on taxes?
An awful lot of the Republican Party’s electoral gains statewide and nationally over the last 35 years can be attributed to the party’s championing of the idea of allowing people
Continue readingThe Dorothea Dix debacle
Gov. Pat McCrory has announced a deal to sell the former Dorothea Dix hospital property to the City of Raleigh. The $52 million deal — if finalized — would transform
Continue readingThanks for a great 2014. Here’s to an even better 2015.
The Haymaker dramatically expanded its reach and influence in 2014. We put more heat on more politicians — making it crystal clear that the days of surviving via a lazy drive-by
Continue reading#NCGA: Sens. Tarte, Hartsell bringing no-bid P3s to Concord, Kannapolis and Mint Hill?
We’re a little late on this one. We’ve been preoccupied with the election and the cromnibus nonsense in Washington. But this little gem just caught our attention. There’s been quite
Continue reading#NCGA: Are you ready for some hardball? (More spending, too?)
The “conservative revolution” rolls on. We’re seeing and hearing all kinds of ads promoting speaker Thom Tillis’s leadership on Jones Street. Yet, most of the recent reports from that jurisdiction
Continue reading#NCGA: Speaker Moffitt?
I spoke with a handful of Republican House members this weekend just for the sake of taking the political temperature. We’ve previously reported — thanks to inside information — that
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