Tag: NCGA

#ncga: An ORGY of taxing & spending breaks out amid the ‘conservative revolution’

Posted on February 25, 2015February 25, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It seems the folks on Jones Street have kicked off one heck of an orgy — apparently in honor of the box office success of ’50 Shades of Grey.’ Let’s

Environmental wackos having their way with state coastal policy. Raleigh yawns.

Posted on February 23, 2015February 23, 2015 by Brant Clifton

In 2011, the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission submitted a report forecasting sea level rise along the coast for the next three decades. The new Republican majority dismissed what they

#ncga: Bill puts legislator’s hometown’s employees into state health plan

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Senator Bill Rabon (R) — who, by the way, thinks we need to pay more gas tax — has filed a bill seeking to put employees of The Town of

#ncga: No ID? Give them an absentee ballot and move on.

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Brant Clifton

A group of Democrat senators has introduced a bill calling for JUST that. Given that the GOP runs the upper chamber, I would lean toward thinking that this bill has

#ncga: Common Core, coal ash commissions (and their price tags)

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I’ve never been a big fan of study commissions organized by politicians. They are almost always easy ways out for politicians looking to avoid having to take a tough stand

#ncga: Pay raises for Speaker Moore’s staff. A gas tax hike for US.

Posted on February 18, 2015February 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The drive-bys gave us a peek at the salaries of all of new House speaker Tim Moore’s staff. Most staffers got raises in the ballpark of twenty percent. One

#ncga: Gas tax hike for US. Tax breaks for airlines & data centers.

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Legislators are spinning us that a lot of road work needs to be done statewide, but there just isn’t enough money out there to do it. So, they are selling

#ncga: Crowd-funding, an interesting option in economic development debate

Posted on February 16, 2015February 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Politicians these days are all crowing about being “job creators.” Gov. Pat McCrory has emptied out the corporate welfare accounts at the Department of Commerce, and he’s coming to us

#ncga: The era of ‘tax-and-spend’ Republicans

Posted on February 15, 2015February 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I took a look at that bill –portrayed in the media as a gas tax cut — that is really a gas tax hike. It lumps all kinds of changes

#ncga: Things looking rather dicey in House for NC Chamber’s gas tax hike

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Our sources in the lower chamber on Jones Street tell us that the vote on the gas tax hike / ”revenue stabilization” nonsense that passed the GOP-dominated Senate with flying