Tag: Raleigh

Thoughts on the NC House GOP leadership skirmish

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

State House Republicans are meeting today to decide who will lead them through the next legislative session in Raleigh. A lot of the current leadership is running again, while a

Raleigh’s “conservative revolution” off to an inauspicious start

Posted on November 9, 2012November 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The economy is in shambles. We are still coping with record unemployment. And the political class in Raleigh is FASCINATED with who will be on Pat McCrory’s transition team as

TWO majority leaders? (NC’s “conservative revolution” marches on)

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The “honorables” on Jones Street are giving us quite an eye-opening preview of where things might be headed: House Republican leaders are considering creating two

Thom Tillis? DONE. Skip Stam? DONE. (Any questions?)

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I button-holed a Republican legislator recently to try and get some of the inside skinny on the happenings on Jones Street. This House member told

‘Pay To Play’ alive and well on Jones Street

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

When the GOP majority took over the North Carolina General Assembly in 2011, we were promised an end to pay-to-play. Pay-to-play has typically meant the shakedown of lobbyists and other

Bev’s DOT chief: It’s HARD to live on a six-figure government salary

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Gene Conti, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, says you need to be paid a whole lot more than the current $121,807 a year

A travesty of justice in Moore County with a tragic ending

Posted on August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The body of a thirty-something Moore County woman was found Wednesday near the county landfill in Aberdeen. Check out one of the news accounts: A

October trial for Thom Tillis ally Stephen LaRoque? (Wait. There’s an election in NOVEMBER …)

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The folks at NCPolicyWatch — who have led the way in reporting on corruption allegations against Richard Morgan and Thom Tillis ally Stephen LaRoque — say that it looks good

Moore County-Robbins water deal looking more and more like a long-shot

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

My #1 mole in the Moore county bureaucracy tipped me off that commissioners Craig Kennedy and Nick Picerno recently connected with state Senator Jerry Tillman in Raleigh for a fact-finding

Red Light, Green Light: The Pilot labels Democrat’s “mistake” a GOP dirty trick

Posted on July 6, 2012July 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Democrat machine operatives who own — and control the editorial content of — our thrice-weekly Emmy Award-winning, Nobel Prize-nominated local newspaper are at it again: stretching the truth and