WataugaWatch

We should thank God for PolitiFact for keeping politicians honest. Or for sweeping up after the elephant parade has gone by. You can read fu...

Gov. Squishy tried to put lipstick on his HB2 pig yesterday -- issuing an "executive order" that did precisely nothing but signa...

Hendersonville Republican Tom Apodaca (that's him to the left) is Chair of the NC Senate Committee on Rules. He's kind of a big de...

The Republican paint-strippers in the NC General Assembly are not happy with the new abortion clinic rules put out by the McCrory administ...

The Republican-dominated General Assembly of North Carolina reconvenes at noon today, and the trouble will start at approximately 12:01 p....

Governor Pat McCrory grandly announced last week that he would raise teacher pay. Guar-an-TEED. Why, he could do that with one hand tied beh...

Stam the Ram Most health organizations, from the Centers for Disease Control to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,...

Paul Stam Interesting and lengthy analysis of what to expect from the NC General Assembly in the legislative session about to convene, ...

A Pew Research Center study released last week found that 63 percent of those surveyed don’t want Roe v. Wade overturned. Only 38 percent ...

Thom Tillis The Thom Tillis consolidation of personal power in the NC General Assembly, as seen from the perspective of Brant Clifton, ...

From Anna Oakes' most recent update on Dan Soucek's Screw  Over   Boone Act of 2012, in the Watauga  Democrat: Soucek said, “Ther...

At a recent townhall meeting in Asheboro, Republican Speaker of the NC House Thom Tillis said this: I understand that Majority Leader [Pau...

Mark Binker has uncovered the names of the 30 Republican members of the NC House (and the two Democrats, both members of the Five Goobers )...

The General Assembly, again with Democratic votes in the NC House, has overridden the governor's veto of the new restrictions on abortio...

This morning's editorial by Steve Ford in the Raleigh News & Observer dings Republican hypocrisy in the matter of campaign finance....

John Deere Inc. induces members of the NC General Assembly, particularly Republican Majority Leader in the NC House Paul Stam, to pass legis...

Tim White in the Fayetteville Observer takes on the Republican scheme to shift spending from public to private schools in North Carolina: W...

The NC GOP intends to do several baneful things to the citizens of this state (unnecessarily "card" them when they vote, deny abor...

Former Speaker of the NC House (and new Minority Leader) Joe Hackney, calling out new Republican Majority Leader Paul "Skip" Stam...

New Republican grandees in the General Assembly, and their willing followers out in the boonies, seem not at all resigned to making citizen...