#NCGA: WWThD (What Will Thom Do?)
The North Carolina Senate has voted to send one heck of a hot potato over to the NC House. The economic development package creates a new method for handing out
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#NCGA: Captain Obvious files his copy
McCrory rift with Senate may stall NC budget. Ya Think ???? That was the eloquently succinct and prescient headline atop the latest missive from McClatchy-Charlotte’s genial geriatric Jim Morrill.
Continue readingVisions of Art Pope dancing in their dope-addled, near-empty heads …
It’s really sad listening to the folks around the drum circle moaning about Art Pope. I’ve actually communicated with Art Pope. He is a guy who has inherited a lot
Continue readingMcCrory admin stocking up on Dems
In the early days of the McCrory administration, we heard from transition insiders moaning about how Bev Perdue had loaded the bureaucracy with Democrat loyalists — even in posts typically
Continue readingPoet-gate and the sad state of media and politics in North Carolina
Well, the testosterone-challenged crowd in the McClatchy newsrooms have claimed the scalp of a poor, defenseless woman who made the horrific “mistake” of allowing Gov, Pat to appoint her poet
Continue reading#NCGA: No reasonable expectation of privacy while on public street? (Um, Fourth Amendment?)
I am seriously #SMH on this one: […] Sen. Tamara Barringer, a Cary Republican who is also a law professor, said there is a right to privacy but not always
Continue readingMonkey Business Update: The state’s sea level rise study
We’ve posted previously about the do-over ordered by the legislature on the projections of sea level changes along the coast. This information is important because it can affect insurance rates,
Continue readingMoney for a new PR flack, but not for pay raises, supplies, facilities …
The educrats and their drive-by media enablers are a piece of work. They’ve been able to successfully paint legislators in Raleigh as micro-managers deciding who gets a teaching assistant and
Continue readingGov. Pat takes a page from Thad Cochran’s political playbook
In Mississippi, when incumbent US senator Thad Cochran appeared to be going down in flames to Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel, GOP establishment types sold their souls and threw in
Continue readingGov. Pat: ‘Door Open’ to ObamaCare, expanding Medicaid
Medicaid is trying to break North Carolina’s economy. It’s an out-of-control mess. In 2013, as ObamaCare was being implemented, states were being encouraged to expand their Medicaid programs as a way
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