by Thomas Mills | Nov 24, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGov, Politics
This piece was originally posted on July 9, 2013 and is part of our Best of PoliticsNC 2013 series. It’s an appropriate companion blog to Rob Christensen’s article today about in-migration in North Carolina. If you enjoy reading PoliticsNC, please consider...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 21, 2013 | DHHS, Editor's Blog, NCGov
Part of our Best of PoliticsNC 2013, this piece was originally posted on August 15, 2013 after we learned that unqualified campaign hacks were being paid more than $85,000 at the Department of Health and Human Services. If you enjoy this or other posts, please...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 21, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGov
Appointing political supporters to government positions is a time honored tradition. It happens in virtually every position where an elected official has the power to hire and fire. In the case of Pat McCrory, though, he’s appointing unqualified people to oversee...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 15, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGov |
Well, McCrory and company are at it again. The Governor is at an exclusive resort in Greensboro hobnobbing with the big donors whose money is keeping him afloat. And this time he’s offering up his cabinet secretaries and advisors to the money people. Prostitution...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 11, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NCGov |
I owe Pat McCrory’s communications team an apology. They’re not incompetent. They have an incompetent boss. John Frank’s profile of Pat McCrory puts to rest any speculation about who is to blame for McCrory’s gaffes and his refusal to acknowledge them. It’s Pat’s...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 29, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NCGov |
Poor Pat McCrory. Either he doesn’t understand how government works or he’s just making stuff up again. Remember when he cut unemployment benefits to North Carolina’s long-term unemployed despite our stubbornly high unemployment rate? He blamed Barack Obama. It...
