#ncga: A primary for Kelly Hastings
He’s played games with his campaign fund — paying himself, paying family. He’s taken a walk on key votes in the House. He’s hung so close to leadership (i.e., Speaker
Continue readingNC-03: Dacey takes a seat on the bandwagon
Right out of the starting gate, GOP candidate / Indian casino lobbyist Scott Dacey took to the radio airwaves and cyberspace to hug up tight to President Trump and question
Continue reading#ncga: Traveling & Eating (on special interests’ dime) with Jason
Only in America — specifically North Carolina and the NCGOP — can a guy go from broke and unemployed to making major financial decisions for the future of the state
Continue reading#ncga: NC Dems blast Crone for playing nice with Dollar
I have a lot of respect for Democrat uber-consultant / NC Spin regular Brad Crone. I disagree with him on just about everything issues-wise. But he does have an interesting,
Continue readingTrans Studies Reading Group? (Yay!) Feminist Decolonial Politics? (um, Double Yay!)
Some of you may be taking a break from stressing over how you’re going to pay that tuition bill for the rugrats from that UNC institution of,um, higher learning. Some
Continue readingNC-03: Racial Roulette?
“Round and round she goes. Where she stops, nobody knows ….” — Overheard in Vegas There are some questions in life that should be easy to answer. What’s your name?
Continue reading#ncga: A GOPer & Dem to take on Moore’s Boles
For a Republican elected official in rock-ribbed Republican Moore County, a Democrat opponent is (1) a rarity, and (2) usually little more than an annoyance, like a fly buzzing around
Continue readingFolwell to UNC: ONE BILLION DOLLARS, please.
State treasurer Dale Folwell has expressed his skepticism about the UNC-Atrium / Carolinas Medical merger. Now, he’s literally trying to make the head honchos in that proposed deal put their
Continue readingFolwell: UNCHealth-Carolinas merger will jack up health care costs
We expressed our reservations earlier about the proposed merger between Charlottes’ Carolinas HealthCare and UNC Health Care. Now, state treasurer Dale Folwell is getting in on the act: Officials who
Continue readingAnother one bites the Blust — um, dust
Bert Jones. Carl Ford. Chris Millis. And now John Blust. Leaders in the state House’s tiny conservative minority are calling it quits in this cycle It must be tough to
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