Fiddling while the state’s economy burns
The honorables on Jones Street are in full campaign mode, engaging in some serious political theater. We’ve got a record number of people out of work, and an obscenely high
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Charlotte says DNC to be an economic boon for downtown. (Chicago’s NATO experience suggests otherwise.)
Charlotte city and business community leaders sold this year’s Democrat National Convention as a serious potential bonanza for downtown businesses. Before you folks in downtown get
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Get ready, Charlotte. Check out what’s heading your way in September
Community leaders in Chicago issued warnings to downtown area residents about protecting themselves during the ongoing NATO summit. Why would The NATO summit make Chicago a
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Outer Banks Tea Party fight with NCGOP establishment heating up
The epicenter of the fight between the conservative grassroots and the Raleigh establishment is in The Outer Banks’ House District 6. A July 17 GOP
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Selectively protesting preachers
Well, the sore loser crowd is at it again. Once again, the folks on the losing end of the marriage amendment vote are in The N&O whining about a sermon
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Eastern NC Tea Partiers hunting RINOs, slapping Morgan & NCGOP
Over on The Outer Banks, we’ve got YET another case of NCGOP trying to force one of their handpicked cronies down the throats of voters. Truth
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GOP Candidate unloads on NCGOP’s heavy-handed approach to 2012 GOP primaries
Former state senator Fern Shubert has never been one to mince words. She came in a close third place in the May 8th GOP primary for
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Tim Lea throws a tantrum, and The Pilot dutifully takes dictation
If you read The Pilot, you would think that county commissioner Tim Lea was little more than a crusading, good-government, of-the-people, by-the-people kind of guy. He regularly throws tantrums
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Getting to know the GOP candidates for Insurance Commissioner
Anyone looking to learn more about the GOP candidates in the state Insurance Commissioner runoff on July 17 should click on THIS LINK. Somebody has done an
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“Tom-with-an-H” is all alone on this one
Drip-drip-drip. The sordid details surrounding Speaker Thom’s staff are treating Raleigh Republicans to the worst kind of Chinese water torture. They took power in 2010 promising a different environment than
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