#ncga: Doing the, um, hustle? (Budget boogie?)
Folks on Jones Street, who talk to us, say that the Senate has been pitching offers to House leadership on the budget. But those have been met with cricket sounds.
Continue readingFolks on Jones Street, who talk to us, say that the Senate has been pitching offers to House leadership on the budget. But those have been met with cricket sounds.
Continue reading*Gosh. I can’t think of a better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than sitting through a NCGOP Central Committee meeting.* (Wait. Did I just say that out loud?) Actually,
Continue readingHasan Harnett certainly shocked the political world this weekend. It’s also become clear that the establishment is not going to play nice with the new NCGOP chairman. (Lt. Governor Dan
Continue readingWe’re seeing a lot of chest-thumping from a lot of folks talking about what a player he or she thinks she is on Jones Street. But we’re finding that a
Continue readingSome months back, NCGOP establishment types issued a proclamation that current party chairman Claude Pope is out and that SOMEBODY named Craig Collins would be IN. Since then, the coronation
Continue readingWell, the GOP has officially surrendered their advantage in the area of taxes. After so many decades as the low – / anti-tax party, the GOP majority on Jones Street
Continue readingI don’t know about you. But around here, we get all a-tingly when word comes of a PRESS CONFERENCE. Let’s see who we have here. First up, Stephen Ross —
Continue readingFrom what Jones Street insiders are telling me, Cumberland County Rep. Rick Glazier (D) is the closest thing to a leader in the General Assembly’s lower chamber. And HE is
Continue readingI stumbled across something interesting yesterday while nosing through cyberspace. State Rep. David Lewis (R-Harnett) released some documentation for the legislature’s Revenue Laws Committee meeting yesterday. (Even though they
Continue readingA rightward shift. That’s how two sources – who both had votes in today’s leadership vote — described the final results to me. You can read and watch the accounts
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