by Kirk Kovach | May 31, 2018 | Features, The Kovach Corner |
After poring over the 250+ page budget released late Monday, a special funding scheme came to light which funneled $200,000 to a particular senate district in Charlotte. Jeff Tarte, whose newly reconfigured district pits him in perhaps the most competitive senate race...
by Kirk Kovach | May 30, 2018 | Features, The Kovach Corner |
The cadre of Republicans in Raleigh who basically run the state have streamlined their budget process by making it into a conference report. You have to get into the weeds a little bit to unpack their methods. A typical process might go like this: a bill is proposed...
by Kirk Kovach | Apr 5, 2018 | Features, The Kovach Corner |
A WSJ column by Daniel Henninger this morning piqued my interest. It, like many recent opinion pieces from the Journal, discussed the recent tariff talk and subsequent trade war in which we find ourselves. The Chinese have reacted to Trump’s bluster by threatening to...
by Kirk Kovach | Mar 15, 2018 | Features, The Kovach Corner |
At this point it’s an evergreen lede, but the Republicans are at it again. Remember the non-story they began to hawk a few weeks ago about a so-called slush fund that Governor Cooper negotiated? The slush fund, or more precisely the mitigation fund, is an aspect of...
by Kirk Kovach | Feb 14, 2018 | Features, The Kovach Corner |
Amidst the fire and fury that is the Trump presidency, two important memos were released this week. No, not the Nunes memo, nor the Schiff rebuttal. I’m talking about Priorities USA and a new poll today from PPP. Both of these should encourage and scare Democrats, but...
by Kirk Kovach | Feb 12, 2018 | Features, The Kovach Corner |
The NCGOP is attempting, once again, to distract from their own problems and create artificial ones for Governor Cooper. For February, the imagined “slush fund” resulting from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline negations has been fodder for the majority party in the General...
