In the midst of all the rhetoric and half-baked excuses our State government likes to employ when ignoring environmental nightmares like Titan Cement, Cliffside and PCS Phosphates, I figured it was time to remind them of decades-old (but still gold) laws that have been passed that provide both guidance [...]
I’ve been putting off writing this post for a couple weeks now, thinking my inklings overblown. But when I read my old friend Rick Henderson’s account of the latest abuse of power by state government, well, there is just nothing else to say but this:
Facts do not matter any [...]
State Rep. Larry Hall is holding a reception and fundraiser tonight in Durham.
Dome's collective eyebrows rose when we saw a copy of the e-mail invite addressed to "Legislative Liaisons," the title generally given to lobbyists for state government agencies. Lobbyists, of course, are forbidden by [...]
Long ago North Carolina’s pious, pandering politicians decided that selling the “Devil’s elixir” couldn’t be trusted to private enterprise. Presumably, if state government totally controlled sales, distribution and marketing of “hard liquor” consumption would be reduced; else Tar Heels would be seen falling-down drunk in the streets. Worse, they [...]
First the good news: North Carolina state government has more than $600 million to close any budget hole this fiscal year.
Now the bad news: Revenues are $95 million less than what lawmakers projected when they passed a $19 billion budget last summer. Adding to the problems, the state’s unemployment rate [...]
There’s a group missing in the AP’s article this morning on higher-education funding and folks afflicted by tight budgets. See if you can guess who they are. From “Lawmakers consider college aid as state, family budgets dip”:
RALEIGH, N.C. — Families across North Carolina and state government felt the same [...]
