#ncgop: Oops, he did it AGAIN.
Some people learn — painfully — not to touch the hot stove. Others keep touching the hot stove hoping that it will eventually not burn their fingers. Larry Holmquist of
Continue reading#ncga: Curtis, we hardly knew ya.
Here’s the announcement from the Mecklenburg County GOP’s Facebook page: “The work he has done this past year” ???? Is she talking about his effort to recruit opponents against Republican
Continue readingJohn Hood: Donald Trump is a BIGOT
It’s pretty apparent that Raleigh’s *Mr. Conservative* doesn’t think much of GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump or his supporters: THAT –my friends — is sarcastic repartee in the vein of
Continue reading#ncga: MeckGOP chairman doubles down on dissing Hager, floats trial balloon about state Senate run
I am baffled as to how Curtis Watkins still has his post with the party. (But then again, Dallas Woodhouse is STILL employed by the NCGOP.) If you haven’t been
Continue readingRucho Roars at MeckGOP chairman
A dentist-turned-legislator sounds like he wants to perform a root canal on his county party chairman — without anesthetic. We told you last week about MeckGOP chairman Curtis Watkins trying
Continue readingMoore, Montgomery taxpayers to EAT $100K in economic development #FAIL?
That’s what we’re hearing. Influential folks in high places are telling us that Moore County Partners in Progress — the county’s economic development group — and Montgomery County are planning
Continue reading#ncpol: John Locke, neutered?
I’ve had my suspicions about what HAS or HAS NOT been going on within the John Locke Foundation lately. The so-called hotbed of free market thought in North Carolina has
Continue readingDrive-by fishwrap: Fayetteville can, um, “learn” from Baltimore.
You know things are bad when your local driveby fishwrap / birdcage liner starts telling you how your town can LEARN from Baltimore. Yep. The same place immortalized in the
Continue readingThe rise of the freelance economy
The folks at George Mason U.’s Mercatus Center have come out with a pretty interesting study: Are we becoming a nation of freelancers? Some fear that traditional employment is ending,
Continue readingAre public high schools failing our kids?
There’s a thought-provoking report out that suggests just THAT: I discovered this in an unpublished manuscript at my annual economics conference: “According to Harrigan and Davies, between 1987 to 2007,
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