North Carolina’s unemployment insurance mess
The Tar Heel State’s unemployment rate exceeds the national average. Ol’ Bev keeps extending unemployment benefits for the state’s long-term unemployed. All of this is going on in
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L’affaire LaRoque gets some federal attention
Sarah Ovaska, at NCPolicyWatch, has been on top of the scandal swirling around state Rep. Stephen Laroque (R-Kinston) since the beginning. Now, she’s confirmed
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Pinehurst govt dives into the performing arts
Well, it looks like Queen Nancy and her court at Village Hall are putting us — the taxpayers — on the hook for a new
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Getting rich is NOT a crime
With the rise of Mitt Romney, and the activities of The Occupy movement, and the even more outlandish activities of BarryO and his posse, it is pretty clear that we’re
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And the spending goes on and on and on …
North Carolina is broke — or so we were told during the fight over the state budget during this last session. Stuff got cut out left and
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An interesting question for Mitt
Mitt Romney’s work with Bain Capital, the venture capital firm he founded, has become a major issue in the GOP race for The White House. Mitt’s opponents
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A rational, common sense look at NCGA v. NCAE
Democrats and the mainstream media (redundant? mutually exclusive?) all over the state are decrying the state legislature’s move to end the teachers’ groups ability to
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SC primary: Can you HEAR us NOW?
Two South Carolina Republican officials with strong conservative and Tea Party credentials appear to be sending the GOP establishment and the party’s presidential candidates a
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Welcome To The Carolinas
Now that the smoke has cleared in Iowa and New Hampshire, the nation’s eyes are turning just south of me to The Palmetto State. (We, in North Carolina, will get
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Bev booed in Blue Heaven
I spent Tuesday night, in my usual spot in The Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill, watching my beloved Tar Heels dismantle The Miami Hurricanes. As halftime approached,
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