BREAKING: McCrory promises
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...
Democrats: Get over it and get moving
Originally posted on April 8, this piece is part of our Best of PoliticsNC 2013. This post was widely circulated and reprinted in full on several news sites. If you enjoy this post or PoliticsNC, please consider a donation to keep us afloat. Two myths seem to...
Hey, Democrats, you can’t run so you better fight
No doubt, the Obamacare roll out is a mess. That said, states that set up their own exchanges and expanded Medicare are having success. They are getting insurance to people who have never had it or have been denied affordable coverage for years because of pre-existing...
North Carolina is purple. Period.
Best of PoliticsNC 2013 is part of our blogathon to highlight some of our best posts over the past 8 months. We'll post one a day between now and Thanksgiving. This piece was first posted on March 15, 2013 in the predecessor to PoliticsNC. It was a response to an...
Survey says…
The results are in. More than 500 people took our reader survey and after seven months of blogging, we now know more about who is reading. We learned a few new things, confirmed a few suspected things and know more about where we want to go in the future. Thanks for...
Busking in the blogosphere
Busking is playing music on the streets for tips. That’s basically what I’m doing but my music is my blog and my street is cyberspace. Today, after seven and a half months of blogging, I’m asking for your support. Amanda and I started this blog in April in response to...
Out of balance
The lead stories in the News & Observer today highlight inequalities in compensation for public employees. One story exposes inflated salaries for managers and public executives in municipal governments. The other introduces a Wake County court clerk who has to...
Best little whorehouse
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...
Economic underdevelopment
There’s a lot of talk about North Carolina’s stubbornly high unemployment rate and job recruitment efforts lately. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker says that we can blame a lot of our woes on people who have moved to the state to find employment but have not been...
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In 1996, Democrats in North Carolina professionalized their legislative campaigns. For decades, they had relied primarily on local party bosses and precinct chairs to deliver votes. The system was outdated and ineffective and the 1994 Republican rout exposed its...
