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 9, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Demographic Trends, Economic Development, Economy, Features, NCGov |
As much as some folks might not want to admit it, there are now two North Carolinas. Governor McCrory is going to have to appeal to both to win reelection. The first North Carolina is traditional North Carolina – the small towns and rural areas that dot the...
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 Thomas Mills | Mar 6, 2015 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
In a column this week, John Hood of the John Locke Foundation wrote, “Modern Conservatives…believe that fiscal and policy decisions ought to be made as close to local communities as necessary.” That certainly doesn’t describe the Republicans in the legislature....
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...
