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Monkey Business Update: The state’s sea level rise study

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve posted previously about the do-over ordered by the legislature on the projections of sea level changes along the coast.  This information is important because it can affect insurance rates,

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DENR, Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government
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Money for a new PR flack, but not for pay raises, supplies, facilities …

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The educrats and their drive-by media enablers are a piece of work.  They’ve been able to successfully paint legislators in Raleigh as micro-managers deciding who gets a teaching assistant and

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Media, Moore County

NC-06: It’s Walker in a Runaway

Posted on July 16, 2014July 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I don’t think anybody saw this beatdown coming.  The entire GOP membership of the North Carolina US House delegation (except Walter Jones)  had endorsed Phil Berger, Jr. and had raised

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Renee Ellmers: The gift that keeps on giving

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

She can melt down on national radio.  She can scream at her constituents.  She can ignore and avoid a good chunk of her district.  But, somehow — despite violating all

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Moore County, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCSEN: Tilting Democrat?

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Brant Clifton

That’s the word of DC-based political prognosticator Stuart Rothenberg on this year’s battle to unseat Miss Kay.  Hagan has been holding a steady lead in the polls since shortly after

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Sound the alarm: The “poetry community” is rankled. That’s right. Rankled.

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The testosterone-deprived newsroom at McClatchy Central in Raleigh is up in arms.  Gov. Pat picked a new poet laureate and did not bother to consult with them or any of

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, Politics
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#NCSEN: The state of the write-ins

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Brant Clifton

If you want to have your votes in the November elections tallied as a write in candidate for a statewide office, you need to have 500 signatures from duly registered

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campaign 2014, Media, NCGOP, Politics

Gov. Pat takes a page from Thad Cochran’s political playbook

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Brant Clifton

In Mississippi, when incumbent US senator Thad Cochran appeared to be going down in flames to Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel, GOP establishment types sold their souls and threw in

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campaign 2014, Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Gov. Pat: ‘Door Open’ to ObamaCare, expanding Medicaid

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Medicaid is trying to break North Carolina’s economy.  It’s an out-of-control mess.  In 2013, as ObamaCare was being implemented, states were being encouraged to expand their Medicaid programs as a way

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Media
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A REAL GOOD reason to show up at the polls in November

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve heard from a lot of people saying they might just not vote in November — thanks to some sorry choices on the ballot for the US Senate, Congress, and

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Media
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