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Drive-by fishwrap: Fayetteville can, um, “learn” from Baltimore.

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

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

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Media, NC State Government, Politics

The rise of the freelance economy

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

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,

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Economy, Media, ObamaCare, Politics

Are public high schools failing our kids?

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There’s a thought-provoking report out that suggests just THAT: I discovered this in an unpublished manuscript at my annual economics conference: “According to Harrigan and Davies, between 1987 to 2007,

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Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncpol: Patrick Milhous McCrory

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

A tendency to use the government bureaucracy to snoop on and intimidate perceived opponents.  An enemy’s list.  Screaming fits at press aides regarding his coverage. Campaigning as a conservative, but

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: The Big E

Posted on December 12, 2015December 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

(No, not him.)   We’re talking about ethics.  A topic the majority in the lower chamber on Jones Street appears to need a refresher on.  Wait.  They GOT one in caucus

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncpol: Things that make you go HMMMMMM.

Posted on December 11, 2015December 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The state board has unveiled a neat new search feature that allows you to browse campaign filings by TYPE. The search engine allows you to go through all kinds of

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncpol: Think UNC’s Gene Nichol is bad? Meet Altha Cravey.

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I know. I know. Very similar to “crazy.”   We’ve provided a lot of coverage to the saga of Gene Nichol, the alleged law professor at UNC, who appears to

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Media, NC State Government, Politics
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#nc-02: The Lyin’ Queen takes to the airwaves AGAIN

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Now, she’s mixing it up on us.  In between taxpayer-funded campaign mail drops, Big Government Barbie is taking to the airwaves with the help of something called The American Action

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campaign 2016, Congress, Renee Ellmers
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#NCSEN: Immigration to US a CIVIL RIGHT ????

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That’s what our GOP-controlled US Senate apparently wants us to believe: In response to Donald Trump’s call for a temporary pause on Muslim migration, the Senate Judiciary Committee declared on

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Richard Burr, Thom Tillis
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#ncpol: A scandal waiting to happen (Gov. Stanley Roper ???)

Posted on December 11, 2015December 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Come and knock on our door… (Come and knock on our door) We’ve been waiting for you…. (We’ve been waiting for you)  … ________________________________________ Many of you are likely familiar

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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