The Daily Haymaker

Audit week !!! (Hey, what happened to the payroll taxes?)

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Brant Clifton

If all goes as expected, North Carolina’s Second Lady and her attorney will meet with an auditor from the NC Department of Health & Human Services (NC DHHS) this week

Yolanda vs. NC DHHS: Butting heads over fiscal review of Robinson family biz

Posted on April 18, 2024 by Brant Clifton

A fiscal review of Greensboro-based Balanced Nutrition, the Robinson family business, had been scheduled for the duration of this week. The firm, a contractor for state government which manages millions

Surprise! UNC board of governors smacks down DEI.

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Boy, this issue has really found its legs quickly. At the beginning of April, we heard from UNC-CH trustee Jim Blaine – a close associate of state senate president pro

Yolanda: NC DHHS probe of Robinson family business part ‘of some type of vendetta’

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Balanced Nutrition had been scheduled for a full-blown compliance review that was to begin this Monday and finish Friday. If you haven’t been following this saga, Balanced Nutrition has been

Levy & co. continue to surrender power to unelected bureaucrats

Posted on April 16, 2024April 16, 2024 by Brant Clifton

We had such high hopes for the current Moore County Board of Education. Two years ago, we elected a 6-1 conservative majority pledging to be a check-and-balance on the county

Public education establishment won’t FIX DEI. Our elected reps must get the job done.

Posted on April 16, 2024April 16, 2024 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been hearing some tough talk about DEI and what certain powerful folks would like to see done about it. UNC-CH trustee Jim Blaine – a close associate of senate

WSJ: Stein dead wrong on taxes

Posted on April 15, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Taxes are on a lot of people’s minds right now. (We’re pretty sure Mark Robinson is not in the mood to broach that subject right now.) Americans from Murphy-to-Manteo and

David Rouzer: North Carolina’s very own ‘Wolf of Wall Street’?

Posted on April 15, 2024 by Brant Clifton

We’ve recently discovered a very interesting Twitter / X feed called @unusual_whales. If you’re not following it, you probably should. It’s run by some longtime finance and investing wizards who

(Et tu, Timmy?) Will the tubby little one screw us ONE MORE time on his way out the door?

Posted on April 12, 2024 by Brant Clifton

It seems like just yesterday that we were big-time spun about a possible wipeout of DEI in the UNC system. The spinner, UNC-CH trustee Jim Blaine, led us to believe

No tax returns filed for five years. Over $1 million in debt.

Posted on April 12, 2024April 12, 2024 by Brant Clifton

If you’re going to campaign on the issue of personal responsibility, it’s kind of important to not have a record like this: […] According to the United States Bankruptcy Court,