Well, The N&O has broken open a rather troubling story involving the governor, some of his big donors, and favors they may have received from the state bureaucracy (allegedly thanks
Continue readingHe was an outspoken critic of House leadership. Then-speaker Thom Tillis found him a primary opponent and helped knock him out of the House. Theam Thillis may have knocked Robert
Continue readingYou never would have imagined a pampered, latte-sipping, Prius-driving, pale-faced suburban princess like Tricia Cotham being in solidarity with Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Chuck D, Flava Flav, and that
Continue readingPoliticians using the public treasury to pay off or payback cronies back home is nothing new. But it is something different when the crowd that spent decades griping about such
Continue readingRaleigh was atwitter last week over the dismissal of state Rep. — and House Committee chairman — Nelson Dollar’s wife from her high,um, “dollar” job at the Department of Public
Continue readingPoliticians never cease to amaze me. A few sessions back, I was treated to a barrage of b*tching from various Republican legislators about Skip Stam and Thom Tillis. From all
Continue readingTHAT is exactly what it takes to to go toe-to-toe or nose-to-nose with an appropriations chairman when you are an agency head. THAT is apparently what has happened this week
Continue readingBrian Brown. Jacqueline Schaeffer. Rayne Brown. Leo Daughtry. Paul Tine. Skip Stam. That’s an awful lot of folks bailing out of Jones Street’s lower chamber majority. Could some folks be
Continue readingWe told you it was coming. Granted, there were a few false starts, stutters and missteps. But the guy who tried to stick us with subsidies for hemp and solar
Continue readingThat was apparently the spin — as reported to us by a faithful reader — put forth recently by state Rep. Frank Iler (R-Brunswick) in response to questions about those
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