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Zero-based budgeting for the State of NC? (It’s ABOUT TIME.)

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Actually, I thought we were already doing some of this. Zero-based budgeting involves putting serious thought into your needs for the upcoming budget year and calculating their costs as close

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campaign 2024, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

NCGA GOPers trying to water down sheriff-ICE cooperation bill?

Posted on May 26, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Here we are with another example of talking tough, but then delivering something weak and spineless to appease campaign donors. Remember when sheriffs elected in liberal enclaves Wake and Mecklenburg

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campaign 2024, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Pass it, THEN figure out how to pay for it and launch it. A really bad bipartisan habit Raleigh needs to break.

Posted on May 25, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Silly me.  I thought representative government was all about our elected folks getting together to publicly make decisions for the greater good.  Too many big decisions in our capital city

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campaign 2024, Phil Berger
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‘A massive complex dedicated to the neo-marxist agenda’: UNC spends $90 million on nearly 700 DEI-related staffers

Posted on May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 by Brant Clifton

That is the conclusion of a fabulous site devoted to government transparency called “Open The Books.”   Judging from what these folks have uncovered, that DEI vote at UNC-Chapel Hill

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campaign 2024, Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics
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The Sandhills Files: Seriously attacking DEI, or merely changing the name and keeping all the associated nonsense?

Posted on May 19, 2024 by Brant Clifton

With UNC-Chapel Hill’s recent courageous vote to defund their DEI operations, I thought there might be a chance at an outbreak of common sense at our other public institutions of

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campaign 2024, Education, Media, Moore County, Pinehurst, Politics
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Gambling fever in General Assembly leads to return of key players in Jim Black scandals

Posted on May 19, 2024May 19, 2024 by Brant Clifton

It’s often been said about the Congress AND our legislature that majorities can change back and forth, but the sleaze never leaves nor subsides.   Case in point: the current

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campaign 2024, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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Medicaid Expansion Blues: The shape of things to come?

Posted on May 18, 2024May 18, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Medicaid expansion got sold to us in 2023 as the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Tons of legislators who had mouthed a lot of sincere-sounding objections to growing the government

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campaign 2024, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Greg Murphy has “the evidence”.

Posted on May 18, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Greg Murphy has certainly made things interesting since getting elected to Congress to replace the late Walter Jones. Who can forget the time he took to social media to inform

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Congress, Greg Murphy, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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He MIGHT actually be worse than a Democrat.

Posted on May 18, 2024May 18, 2024 by Brant Clifton

I doubt you’ll find anyone else straight-out-of-the-trailer-park  as nasty, haughty and condescending as Lil’ Lord Thomas Roland Tillis.  Each time he comes up for election, establishment types hit us with

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campaign 2024, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis, Thom Tillis, Thom Tillis
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Public schools and YOU: “Partners” in raising YOUR kids ???

Posted on May 18, 2024May 18, 2024 by Brant Clifton

I should hope not.  But here’s alleged Republican Bob Levy, chairman of the Moore County Board of Education: Neither the public schools nor the school board are “partners” of any

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campaign 2024, Education, Media, Moore County, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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