We’ve written extensively about the controversy surrounding the hiring of a Spanish contractor to “manage” lanes on the soon-to-be widened section of I-77 in Northern Mecklenburg County. State House speaker
Continue readingA friend of this site told me about an interesting encounter he had last week at baggage claim in the San Antonio Airport. While waiting for his bags to come
Continue readingIt sure didn’t take long for The miserably-failing Raleigh branch of the McClatchy empire to return to form as propagandameister for all things left-of-center. The N&O has released an unsigned
Continue readingGraig Meyer is, um, *interesting*. He’s running for his first full term (appointed October 2013) as a member of the North Carolina House. Meyer represents District 50 — which includes
Continue readingNate Silver of ESPN and the Five Thirty-Eight blog is showing the political fortunes of endangered Democrats in North Carolina and Colorado improving dramatically in recent weeks. On September 3,
Continue readingOh, the *good news* just keeps rolling in for the GOP campaign for North Carolina’s US Senate seat. Left-leaning Public Policy Polling surveyed 1,266 likely voters from September 11 -14.The margin
Continue readingWord is out among the national drive-bys that our Republican senator is likely to seek reelection in 2016. Burr himself gave that talk life in a recent interview with National
Continue readingUS wealth gap putting squeeze on state revenue. Yep. That’s the headline McClatchy slapped on a screed penned by someone at the AP with the title of “economics writer”: Income
Continue readingOne of our allies out there jogged our memory with a very helpful piece from The Daily Kos about the 2008 version of Kay Hagan: In the race to replace
Continue readingNorth Carolina drive-bys have got this interesting little trend going. They have political reporters who also write op-eds. Rob Christensen got it going. (When I was a drive-by, I did
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