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Governor Bev Perdue is making a trip to Washington, DC today to petition for more federal funds for North Carolina.  Instead of working to find better ways to cut spending, target ... Keep Reading

WRAL reports Medicaid spending in North Carolina is $150 million over budget in the first quarter of this fiscal year. The reason for this, the Governor claims, is that over ... Keep Reading

Two stories (Triangle Business Journal & WRAL-TV) in the local media tell a "good news"/bad news story about the Raleigh Convention Center. I put "good news" in qoutation marks ... Keep Reading

How much bang does North Carolina get for its higher education buck? Not very much. That is the final result of A nationwide study from the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education ... Keep Reading

With all the national issues it turns out to be a local one that best crystallizes the problem with runaway government. In the Raleigh News and Observer today we have an article, ... Keep Reading

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)  reports that only several months after blasting CEOs from bailout banks for using corporate jets, House lawmakers approved $500 million for eight new ... Keep Reading

It looks like the legislature is going to sell one of the planes owned and operated by the State Department of Commerce. That is a good start but what they are selling is the ... Keep Reading

The nice folks here at Red Clay want you to know that we are looking out for you.  The fact that $787 billion of your money is being spent by 537 people who have probably ... Keep Reading

North Carolina overspent on Medicaid services by as much as $226 million in a single year, according to a report released yesterday from the Legislature's Program Evaluation ... Keep Reading

As the NC House meets tonight (Friday) and stays over until after midnight to pass higher taxes in the middle of the night on the citizens of the Old North State, it has to be ... Keep Reading