First Approves DemocracyNC, Then Denies Request from GOP For a time, Bob Hall (Director, DemocracyNC) was the only person outside of the State Board of Elections (SBOE) who knew ... Keep Reading
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Occupy Wall Street, the New Democratic Base?
As the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests continue, it is being increasingly portrayed as a serious movement by several media outlets and politicians alike. Democratic politicians, ... Keep Reading
Perdue and Previous Budget Writers Raided Disaster Relief Funds
As one of the most devastating hurricanes in nearly a decade slammed the Carolina coast, few were aware that Gov. Bev Perdue, former Gov. Mike Easley, and the former legislative ... Keep Reading
State Lawmakers’ “Risky Business”
Risk is the word of the day on Jones Street. “At-risk” that is. A term used for deciding eligibility for the state’s Pre-K program (formerly More at Four), “at-risk” has had a ... Keep Reading
Making sense of the gay marriage law
From the (Greensboro, NC) News & Record of Sunday, October 16, 2011 For the record, it should be noted that a majority of the Republican-controlled legislature did not vote ... Keep Reading
School Job Losses in Large LEAs Contradict Left’s Talking Points
An August 31st press release by the Department of Public Instruction declared that this fall, the public schools will eliminate more than 6,300 positions and layoff more than ... Keep Reading
In Fiscal Year 2012 NC Local Governments Plan to Borrow Nearly $750 Million, Most Without Voter Approval
Taxpayers Would be the Borrower and the Lender in Some of the Loans At a time when many people are calling for a cut back in government spending local governments are telling ... Keep Reading
Tell A.G. Josh Stein to Stop All Slush Funds!
Since 2001 the North Carolina Department of Justice has been illegally doling out slush funds to radical environmentalist groups Some of those groups supported Roy Cooper's ... Keep Reading
Mayer Flails – and Fails in New Yorker Article
Add Jane Mayer to the list of liberals trolling the backwaters of North Carolina politics desperately looking for evidence to validate the lefts’s predetermined conclusion that Art ... Keep Reading
The General Assembly’s Pre-K Lemons
Life handed the General Assembly lemons, and they’re making… Well, for the time being they’re still just lemons. But recent developments at the General Assembly in the form of a ... Keep Reading
