by Daniel Gilligan | Mar 14, 2014 | Environment, NC Politics, NCGov |
Welcome guest blogger Daniel Gilligan. Daniel is a researcher who has worked on political campaigns in North Carolina and across the country. Pat McCrory is at it again. Now he says we need to “keep the politics out” of coal ash clean up, which has become an...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 12, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Education, Environment, NC Politics |
What whining! In this morning’s News & Observer, Peder Zane bemoans Democratic attacks on Republican policies, complaining that they are over-the-top and not based in reality. In particular, he says Democrats are complaining about things that happened while they...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 23, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Environment |
When politicians and businesses want to avoid some environmental regulation, they often cite “inconclusive data” or “inconclusive evidence” as the reason to hold off on any oversight. It’s what Republicans routinely say about climate change, even though the data is,...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 21, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Environment, NC Politics, NCGov
Remember when Republicans were the party of personal responsibility? Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and all that stuff? Seems that only applied to poor people. When it comes to corporations–who are also people, you know–it’s a whole different story....
by Thomas Mills | Feb 18, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Environment, NC Politics, NCGov |
Another Pat McCrory cabinet secretary is under scrutiny again. First, it was Kieren Shanahan, the Secretary of Public Safety who thought that the job was a part-time gig. McCrory apparently couldn’t see the potential conflicts of interests or the problem of Shanahan...
by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 7, 2013 | Economic Development, Environment, NCGOP, NCGov |
It appears ALEC has instructed Pat McCrory to weaken our Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard. McCrory’s comments weren’t conclusive, but they used enough right-wing code words like “role of government” to communicate a destructive intent. We’d better get ready for...
