THE Pope: It’s ALL The Haymaker’s fault!
A reader forwarded to us an email conversation they had with NCGOP chairman Claude Pope. (Of course, we came up.) The reader asked THE Pope about reports on our site
Continue readingThomTV: What? No mention of the NCGA success story?
I’m in the Raleigh media market. We’ve just now started seeing Thom Tillis’ TV ad that the mainstream media has been cooing about for weeks. In the ad, the speaker
Continue reading#NCSEN: Lobbyists lining up, placing bets on Hagan, Tillis
Lots of folks are trying to compare this year’s US Senate race with Kentucky’s 2010 contest. But political old-timers like myself can see some similarities to North Carolina’s 1984 contest
Continue readingBeing Bi-partisan: offering Thom a helping hand
We’ve already raised questions about Speaker Thom, his movie contributions, the beer distributor bucks, and his ties to a certain well-connected Massachusetts law firm. We found a few more areas
Continue reading#NCSEN: Giving Kay a helping hand
Yep. You read that right. You can just imagine that –when you’re scurrying all over the nation scooping up special interest money — it can be a challenge to find
Continue readingMemo to The Round Rev: It takes ONE to know ONE
”[…] And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have
Continue readingPublic Schools: Starving? (Hardly.)
Teacher pay and other education spending are supposed to dominate the upcoming short session at the General Assembly. For months, we’ve been pounded by stories like this one – mainly
Continue readingFeeding the beast: Amazon to start collecting state taxes from NC customers
Open up your wallets, folks. It’s official. The North Carolina Department of Revenue will start getting a cut of your purchases from Amazon.com starting February 1. It’s not entirely clear
Continue reading#NCSEN: Wrong on the money
Carter Wrenn — Richard Morgan’s pre-weight loss doppelganger — has surfaced like Captain Ahab’s white whale to do a wee bit of the GOP establishment’s dirty work in a post
Continue readingOmnibus? More like Omni-BUST!
I went back in the Google time machine and found some comments from GOP leaders shortly after the Tea Party put them back in charge of the US House of
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