by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 3, 2013 | NC Politics, NCGov
The McCrory Commerce Department thrust itself back into the news. With its jobs plan came a reminder that McCrory wants Commerce to be run by private interests themselves. Other governors in the gold-plated grip of ALEC have done the same, so it’s tempting to see his...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 3, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGOP, NCGov
With the exception of @_FloridaMan, which is truly a stroke of comedic genius, I don’t follow a lot of faux twitter accounts. So when the account @PatMcCrony popped up in my twitter feed, I chuckled but didn’t pay it much attention. Now, though, the more I look into...
by Thomas Mills | May 28, 2013 | Democrats, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGOP, NCGov |
Politics in North Carolina is truly a mess. On the one side, we have party drunk with power, struggling to control its nuttiest factions and unwilling or unable to curb the opportunists who want to plunder government. On the other, we have a disorganized party with no...
by Thomas Mills | May 23, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGov
In the middle of George Bush’s second term, as he was under fire for a myriad of failures, Newsweek ran an animated cover that showed Bush floating in huge bubble. Obama’s critics have lodged the same complaint about him, that he’s isolated from people with differing...
by Thomas Mills | May 21, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGOP, NCGov |
Pat McCrory rode to victory on a wave of dissatisfaction with the Raleigh political establishment and a stubbornly high unemployment rate. When he talked about fixing government, the voters thought McCrory meant ending the decade of scandals that had plagued two...
by Thomas Mills | May 20, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGov, Politics
The Republican plan to move the SBI from the Department of Justice to the Department of Public Safety makes so much sense. I mean there’s so little to do at the Department of Public Safety that Secretary Kieran Shanahan had to keep his old job just to stay busy....
