#NCGA: Skip Stam endorses toll roads
State House speaker Pro Tem Skip Stam has posted an endorsement of toll roads on his official site — which still IDs him as the “North Carolina House Republican Leader”.
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#NCGA: Senate bill exempts temp foreign workers from state income tax withholding
The state of North Carolina has a more than $400 million revenue shortfall. The honorables on Jones Street are moaning about how they don’t have the money to give teachers
Continue reading#NCGA: Bill in House lays groundwork for more P3s and toll roads
Today’s House calendar includes a little nugget introduced by Rep. Frank Iler (R) with the innocuous label of HB 1126: “DOT Partnerships with Private Developers.” Here’s the text: A BILL
Continue reading#NCGA: Agenda 21? Payoff to campaign contributors, lobbyist pals? (You make the call.)
In this case, I hate that I am right. The state Senate Finance Committee is taking up S99 (H440) a/k/a “North Carolina Benefit Corporation Act.” This sucker has been voted
Continue reading#NCGA: The great revenue chase
John Drescher’s pet shih-tzu sat in on a legislative tax committee hearing for us yesterday. (Better him than us.) There were a few newsworthy items that came out of what
Continue reading#NCGA: The weather vane strategy on govt meddling in health care
Ask any Republican legislator in Raleigh — or any Republican serving in the Congress — and they will tell you they don’t like that BAD ObamaCare and they want it
Continue readingTholl Roads. Thaxation-by-GPS. Brought to you by a Republican administration.
We’re getting a lot of propaganda about the importance of beating Democrats this year. But HOW do you sell that idea when you have some Republicans who are as into
Continue readingThe more things “change,” the more they stay THE SAME
We’re riding out 2013’s last gasps from The Haymaker’s Watauga County outpost. I happened to catch a local news report about the Watauga board of elections’ two-front fight with the
Continue readingMcClatchy now doing HR work for DHHS?
I’m generally not one to argue with scrutinizing the government bureaucracy. However, it DOES tick me off when our lazy, shiftless legacy media monopoly runs all of these “horror stories”
Continue readingPiling on Dr. Wos
Make no mistake — we are NOT exactly “fans” of the welfare state here. In our opinion, the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) could collapse into a
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