by Thomas Mills | Mar 13, 2015 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA |
Rep. Mike Hager, the House Majority Leader, is the latest big government conservative to try to strip power from local governments and give it to the legislature. Hager introduced a bill that would take away local appointments to the Isothermal Community College Board...
by John Wynne | Mar 11, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NCGA |
Recent actions by the GOP legislature to redraw the lines of various governing bodies have some Democratic officials in Mecklenburg nervous. The list of local boards and commissions the General Assembly has seen fit to remap continues to grow: first the Guilford...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 10, 2015 | Editor's Blog, NCGA
Speaker Tim Moore is off to an impressive start. In less than two months, he’s passed bipartisan legislation and struck a tone remarkably different than his predecessor. He may prove to be the balance that keeps the Senate’s most extreme impulses in check while...
by John Wynne | Mar 6, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Demographic Trends, Features, NCGA |
This week’s “Worst Week in Raleigh” award can be divided sevenfold between the seven Democrats who serve on the Wake County Board of Commissioners. Democrats achieved a huge victory in Wake last November, sweeping the entire board in spite of a...
by John Wynne | Mar 5, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NCGA, NCGOP |
Yesterday State Sen. Chad Barefoot introduced a bill that would change the way Wake County elects its Board of Commissioners. Presently, all seven members of the Board are elected at-large. Barefoot’s bill would allow voters to cast ballots for only two...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 5, 2015 | Editor's Blog, NCGA |
The House is going on Spring Break! That’s right. Speaker Tim Moore announced Monday night that the House will be in recess for the week of April 6-9. The legislators may have missed a couple of weeks of productivity due to lousy weather but that’s no excuse to...
