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#ncga: Eat your veggies. (The honorables ARE watching.)

Posted on March 17, 2015March 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve all seen those weepy commercials about “food deserts” — geographic areas where folks apparently can’t get access to the kind of stuff you find in Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods,

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NC legislature, NCGOP
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School crime in North Carolina: Readin’, ritin’, robbin’ and rumblin’

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It gets downplayed in the drive by media, but the public school are required to report annually to the legislature on the crime situation within the state’s public schools each

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Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government

Coal Ash kibosh: Screw commissions. Just DO YOUR JOBS !!!

Posted on March 17, 2015March 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

For years, the news has been peppered with stories about politicians setting up study panels and commissions to deal with a certain issue.  A lot of hearings and press conferences

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Law & Order, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP
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#ncga: Sex And The (capital) City

Posted on March 17, 2015March 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We all remember the hubbub over the chief of staff (and roommate) to then-speaker Thom Tillis getting caught in a tryst with a Jones Street lobbyist.  Then, late last year,

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Law & Order, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP
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NC-02: Ellmers a rising star with national pro-abortion, liberal GOP group

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It appears that Big Government Barbie has launched her national tour.  She’s hit Phoenix, and spent the weekend in Austin at South By Southwest. We’ve written before about Renee Ellmers’s

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Congress, Renee Ellmers
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Public-private partnerships for delivery of social services ????

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

“Social Impact Bonds” is one of the new buzz-terms bouncing around the DC Beltway. Bi-partisan “get-something-done” legislation promoting this concept has been introduced in the US House.  The subject was

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Congress, Renee Ellmers

NCGOP: ‘Huh? What’d ya say?’

Posted on March 13, 2015March 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

“It’s about to get all stupid up in here!” — Michael Scott, Dunder-Mifflin Paper Company   Just when you thought things couldn’t get any dumber than having that dude dress

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Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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Off the reservation

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

That’s right.  You read it correctly.  Leftist strategist Thomas Mills is praising the work of new Republican speaker Tim Moore: Speaker Tim Moore is off to an impressive start. In

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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When is a tax cut NOT REALLY a tax cut?

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

Answer:  When you lower the rate, but monkey with the value of what is getting taxed.   This kind of thing happens a lot at the local level.  Your county

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP
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#NCGOP: All the way with A.J.?

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Claude Pope isn’t running again for state chairman.  All kinds of establishment types have fallen behind somebody named Craig Collins to replace him.  Somebody named Hasan Harnett is also seeking

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Claude Pope, Media, NCGOP
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