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McCrory’s Commerce Make-Over: Is it really all that different from what we already have?

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        We got treated to a “major” announcement from Gov. Pat and his team in Burlington yesterday.  The administration will be creating a new non-profit to handle

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Pat McCrory, Politics
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Campaign 2014: Here come the judges!

Posted on April 9, 2013April 9, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  North Carolina saw a more aggressive than usual Supreme Court election in 2012 with the reelection of Justice Paul Newby(R).  Well-placed sources tell me that jockeying for the 2014

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Law & Order, Media, NC State Government, Politics
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McClatchy + PFAW: Making you Vote where you claim residency, pay taxes = Tax Increase

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Brant Clifton

            The Crayon Corps in the newsroom at The McClatchy School of Creative Writing’s Raleigh Campus never ceases to amaze me.   The good soldiers

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#MSMFAIL: editors need refresher on the whole singular v. plural thing

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    For the second time this week, I’ve come across a MSM headline that indicates there might be some real confusion in newsrooms about this whole singular and plural

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Media, Politics
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Josh Stein & The Democrats’ Dix Disinformation

Posted on April 7, 2013April 9, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Democrats’ last minute sweetheart deal to hand over Dix hospital property to the city of Raleigh is collapsing, and boys are those lefties upset.  The political party that equates capitalism

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Wanna get rich? Get a job with UNC!

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  Campus lefties are crying over Gov. Pat’s plans to cut $140 million from the UNC system.   The lefties suggest that cutting even ONE PENNY from the university system budget

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Economy, Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics
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The VOTER ID saga: House goes wobbly while Senate doubles down

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      I don’t understand.  North Carolinians OVERWHELMINGLY approve of requiring photo ID in order to cast a vote in the state’s elections.  Yet, the “conservative revolution” — at

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Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Tillis 2012: Tolls are bad. Tillis 2013: Tolls are OK.

Posted on April 6, 2013November 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    A Mecklenberg County-based grassroots group has released some rather provocative video featuring state House speaker Thom Tillis.  In the video, Tillis can be seen and heard addressing a

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Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Thom Tillis
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Cyprus can’t happen HERE, huh? (Guess what? Big Barry wants your 401K.)

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    If you have been following things in the mainstream media, you may have heard something about Cyprus and its banks (slipped somewhere in between stories about Justin Bieber

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Congress, Economy, Media, Obama, Politics, Republicans

Did Thom Tillis torpedo bid by Justice Newby’s relative to join UNC BOG?

Posted on April 4, 2013April 4, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  I had a rather interesting conversation today with a fellow who has a LONG track record of influence in North Carolina Republican politics. He  says Wake County conservative leaders

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