Tag: NC General Assembly

Monkey Business Report: Staffing a School that doesn’t exist

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Would you leave your job for another that exists only in the minds of sneaky bureaucrats and politicians? It’s happening right now in Moore County. And it’s going to get

The hottest read this side of Reidsville

Posted on June 19, 2024 by Brant Clifton

That’s right. We’re talking about the legal complaint filed by attorneys representing former Rockingham County commissioner Craig Travis which names, as defendants, Kevin “Son of Phil” Berger and a number

Pass it, THEN figure out how to pay for it and launch it. A really bad bipartisan habit Raleigh needs to break.

Posted on May 25, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Silly me. I thought representative government was all about our elected folks getting together to publicly make decisions for the greater good. Too many big decisions in our capital city

Give the money back? Of course, you should.

Posted on May 11, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Don Berger-ino , the capo di tutti — boss of all (political) bosses — in our fair capital city, is musing publicly about giving all that so-called “surplus” money currently

NC legislators. Lobbyists. The Virginia mountains. Serious injuries. (And some serious questions. )

Posted on April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 by Brant Clifton

At first, I didn’t hold out much hope for The Assembly website. It was billed as a North Carolina politics website run by folks who used to cover the subject

Monkey Business Report: Damage Control, Disposing of Evidence

Posted on May 4, 2023May 4, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Isn’t it great watching the cockroaches scramble for cover? Many would look at the above headline and assume this post would be about criminals. Sadly, it’s not. It’s about OUR

Blue Cross NC calling in its chits on Jones Street

Posted on April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 by Brant Clifton

If I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again: We have the BEST legislature money can buy. Despite what you’re told on the campaign trail, nothing is really done

Folwell causing heartburn in the Jones Street ‘swamp’

Posted on March 11, 2023 by Brant Clifton

“Dale Folwell is causing a lot of trouble for me.” THAT is a quote uttered very recently from the mouth of a very powerful Republican leader in The North Carolina

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: McInnis bill smacks Village govt tyrants

Posted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It appears a grownup has finally stepped in to put the brakes on Pinehurst’s Strickland-Sanborn charlie-foxtrot. State senator Tom McInnis (R-Moore) has filed a bill entitled AN ACT TO LIMIT THE

Folwell promotes Medical Debt ‘De-weaponization’

Posted on December 15, 2022 by Brant Clifton

State treasurer Dale Folwell is hitting the road raising awareness of the state’s medical debt crisis: State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, spoke out to protect patients from the crushing