Wrong messengers

Wrong messengers

by | Oct 31, 2013 | Economy, Editor's Blog, NCGOP | 4 comments

Score one for the teachers. This week, teachers plan a “walk-in” inviting parents and others to schools to discuss the education budget. Predictably, the GOP howled. Senators Phil Berger and Neal Hunt protested the move as putting politics in the classroom and pointed...
Transparency and insight

Feeding fantasies

by | Oct 14, 2013 | DHHS, Editor's Blog, NCGOP

Last week, Rose Hoban of North Carolina Health News reported that employees at the Department of Health and Humans Services edited an audit-response submitted by the the previous administration. She provided copies of the edited pages with her report. Clearly, the...
Down the toilet

Down the toilet

by | Oct 13, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGOP, NCGov | 1 comment

So I wonder which one of those McCrory staffers got the job to remodel his bathrooms? At $230,000, it must have been somebody on the Republican pay scale. It certainly wasn’t any of the rest of us because we wouldn’t just be fixing the toilet. We’d be buying a whole...
Tea-hee-hee

Tea-hee-hee

by | Oct 3, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGOP | 2 comments

Well folks, I think we’re in the End Times. Not for Mankind, but for the Tea Party. Not only are they on a suicide mission in Congress, shutting down government and leaving millions of Americans in the lurch, but they are in the editorial pages still trying to explain...