Saturday, February 28, 2015

McCrory & Tillis Duck Out of Memorial Service

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Maybe it had something to do with the fact that Erskine Bowles was asked to speak rather than either McCrory or Tillis, but this intercep...

Blow-by-Blow, #UNCBOG, Friday, Feb. 27

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All 32 voting members of the Board of Governors (BOG) of the University of North Carolina system are political appointees, with 16 appoin...
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Meanwhile in Watauga: Not Quite 'The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius,' But Closer Than We Were

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The second day of the budget workshops clinched the impression that the Watauga County Commission (still 3-2, Republican advantage) has go...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Don't Look to Senator Tillis If You Want 'Net Neutrality'

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Senator Dung-Hands Von Fecal-Fingers led the NC House in 2011 when the General Assembly passed a law saying that a North Carolina city cou...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

A New Tone on the Watauga County Commission (Hurray!)

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The Watauga County Commission, in its post-Nathan Miller honeymoon phase, is a decidedly different place. Case in point at the two-day budg...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Trying To Make Itself More Important, NC GOP Just Makes Itself Smaller

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NC GOP "jobs plan" Here's the thing: Republican big-wigs in the NC General Assembly thought it would be too cool if they r...

NC Senate Bill Would Bully Same-Sex Couples

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Soucek & Jordan S2, the Phil Berger law that would make discrimination by Register of Deeds offices legal in North Carolina, quickly...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Republicans: Just Stop Talking About Women's Bodies. That Is All

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Okay ... all together now ... The mouth's connected to the esophagus, the esophagus is connected to the stomach, the stomach is connec...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Duke Energy Admits Guilt, And the World Didn't End

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The three U.S. attorneys for the Eastern, Middle, and Western districts of NC filed criminal charges against Duke Energy yesterday for illeg...