Tag: state government
Calling the Guv’s bluff: LIVE from Raleigh — It’s The Council of State.
Most people don’t know much about The Council of State. It is a state government body composed of all of the state officials who are elected statewide — governor, lt. governor, auditor, attorney general, secretary of state, DPI superintendent, treasurer, and the commissioners…
Buying votes with other people’s $$$$
It’s hard to argue against Moms and babies. And Governor Doofus knows this. He’s clearly gearing up for 2020: Many state employees will soon get paid time off when they have a child, Gov. Roy Cooper announced Thursday. Cooper signed an executive order…
Salisbury heads back to the trough.
It must be nice. Blow through all of your money. Make really bad decisions. And you can simply run to your neighbors for MORE MONEY. It happens every month at the state’s Local Government Commission. Local governments strapped for cash run to Raleigh for low-interest, long-term…
#ncpol: Takin’ care of business.
The Raleigh establishment raved about Democrats Richard Moore and Janet Cowell during their respective tenures in the state treasurer’s office. Current treasurer Dale Folwell has been quietly slaving away, during his short time in office, to clean up the mess those two left him. Folwell…
Folwell weeds out some freeloaders
Our rookie state treasurer has really turned into one of the few conservative bright spots in Raleigh. The work he’s done since January 2017 makes you wonder what Janet Cowell and those other Democrats who preceded him were doing: More than 600 people were just…
Sex Week! (*Um, yay?*)
Cookies & Condoms. “F*** like your life depends on it.” A stage production of “Tales from ‘Down There.’ ” Mark your calendars. These and other scholarly offerings will be part of UNC-Charlotte’s first annual “Sex Week” this February. Once again, the University of North…
Gettin’ $$$ PAID $$$ (workin’ for the state)
Every time I hear stories like this, my level of sympathy for “the poor, poor state employees” drops another three notches. (*It’s been FIVE MINUTES since they got a bonus or a salary increase!*): North Carolina has billions of dollars invested in stocks, bonds and…
What’s that I hear? (A bombshell?)
We have had something quite interesting dropped in our lap by some folks in some very interesting quarters. IF it holds up to its advance billing, it should –upon its appearance on our front page – ruin Governor Cooper’s first days in office and quite possibly…
The sky is falling! (in 100 years)
THAT is the snake oil Rob n’ Chris’s krazy krew is pitching: North Carolina is wilting. On 60 days — two-thirds of the summer — Raleigh-Durham International Airport recorded above-average temperatures, according to Weather Underground. In the Triangle, 17 of those days have topped 95-plus. This summer is still cooler…
#ncpol: Solvent, man. SOL-VENT.
For those on the left who want to make the case that the Republicans tossed our state in a hole over the last few years, I humbly yield to the findings of the good folks at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center: The financial health of…
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