Tag: economy

ReOpen NC gains a powerful new ally

Posted on April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Raleigh-based CaptiveAire CEO Bob Luddy is not mincing words in his open letter to Governor Roy Cooper: An urgent appeal to North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper:

Forest: Effort to Reopen NC needs more info, cooperation from Cooper

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Lt. Governor Dan Forest is a fan of getting NC’s economy up and running again ASAP. But he says the leaders of that effort need a lot more

US Rep. Greg Murphy’s prescription for coping with, coming back from coronavirus

Posted on April 11, 2020April 11, 2020 by Brant Clifton

One of North Carolina’s newest Members of Congress has offered up his two cents on the current crisis and how to find our way out: Periods of

State incentives meant to aid poorer, rural counties go mostly to Wake, Meck

Posted on December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Um, SURPRISE ???? Plant closures and job losses have hit rural parts of our state the hardest. Raleigh politicians talk a great game about helping

#ncpol: DUMB -DA-DUMB-DUMB

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Brant Clifton

There’s nothing like having someone young enough to be your daughter, with 1/100th the life experience and 1/1000th the business experience, tell you that what you’re saying is dumb.

The return of Pinehurst’s hollering NIMBYs

Posted on November 24, 2018 by Brant Clifton

I really thought we had turned the corner. It wasn’t long ago that Pinehurst village government consisted of a somnambulant group of 80-somethings who allowed bureaucrats to run willy-nilly on

Re job creation: less Apple & Amazon, more what’s ALREADY THERE.

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Yes, THAT is the message from some Establishment pointy-head types at The Brookings Institute writing in Harvard Business Review: Amazon’s highly visible search for a second headquarters has offered one

More proof: ANYONE can run for Congress.

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Brant Clifton

We previously featured the inane rantings of one Adam Coker. He is one of a gaggle of Democrat candidates out there competing for the honor to represent us in Washington. Well,

Facts continue to stymie lefty doomsayers & race-baiters

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Bert & Ernie and the gang are working overtime to poo-poo the ongoing economic boom. They are trying to tell us — with a straight face — that “people of

An economic upturn and Bert & Ernie are still pissed

Posted on December 29, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Chris Fitzsimon and Rob Schofield, the public faces of WRAL’s political arm are doing all they can to provide a chorus for The Round Rev’s symphony of racial agitation: The Great