WAY too many ‘free passes’ for 2012 @ NCGA
As election filing ended yesterday, we learned that 39 of the 17o North Carolina General Assembly seats will have ONE and ONLY ONE choice for voters in May and November.
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THAT dripping noise over on Jones Street
It’s remarkable how The N&O and its comrades on The Left have such a high regard for legislative ethics — when the Republicans are in the majority. The drip-drip-drip
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John Marcum for NC Senate
Surprahz! Surprahz! Surprahz! — Private Gomer Pyle, USMC I’ll have to admit that NOT many people saw this coming. I think it must have been a spur-of-the-moment thing for
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Hide your kids. Hide your cameras. HE’S IN! (BOOYAH!)
Former congressman Bobby “Boom Boom” Etheridge made it official today — signing on the dotted line in Raleigh to become the 13th candidate for governor of our fair state.
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Oh, hell. Richard’s back. (AGAIN)
SpeakerrrrrRichardMorgan™ is starting to remind me of Jason Voorhees, the deranged killer in all of those really bad Friday The 13th movies. The heroes in those movies are
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NC’s I-95 tolls to hit MORE than just drivers
Legislators and bureaucrats in Raleigh are blowing through funds like a drunken sailor on an extended shore leave. Instead of tightening their belts and trying
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NCGOP: Merely a new set of money-changers in the temple?
GOP leaders took power on Jones Street in 2010 with promises of “no more business as usual.” They were propelled into power by an angry Tea Party and frustrated
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TimmyWatch: Lea for NC Senate?
Moore County political insiders tell me to not be surprised if retiring Moore County Commissioner Tim Lea files at the last minute for the NC Senate seat held by Republican
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Study: No connection between fracking and groundwater pollution
North Carolina is looking at a potentially enormous economic boom with fracking. North Dakota is already booming. The energy industry believes that The Tar Heel State
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Conservatism of Congressional GOP leaders
Does anyone else find it interesting that the top congressional leaders of the GOP — the conservative party — are nowhere near being the most conservative members of
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