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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: The 4th Republican Presidential Debate

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9:10 p.m. Trump, Carson, and Rubio are hitting the first question outta the Republican ballpark: Should we raise the minimum wage? No, ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Wake DA Reopens Pay-to-Play Investigation of Video Sweepstakes Donors

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"Some members of the five-member Board of Elections expressed frustrations that campaign finance laws were insufficient to cover what m...

The Corporation and the Captive Fish

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Greenwashing  (a compound word modelled on "whitewash") -- a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively ...
Monday, November 09, 2015

North Carolina Gets a "D" Grade for Openness, Honesty in Government

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North Carolina government got an overall grade of "D" on the 2015 State Integrity Investigation, " a data-driven assessment...
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Sunday, November 08, 2015

When "History" Becomes Religion

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So the North Carolina Museum of History allows the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to design and execute a special Billy Graham hag...
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Saturday, November 07, 2015

McCrory's Growing Political Corruption Scandal

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North Carolina's real bossman, Phil Berger, is obviously pissed about the evolving scandal over the private prison maintenance contr...
Friday, November 06, 2015

Ben Carson Now Leading the Pack in NC

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Yep. In the latest ElonUniversity poll of slightly over 1,000 North Carolinians, Ben Carson pulls over 30% support from Republicans who s...
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Thursday, November 05, 2015

Cronyism and Falsified Documents Are Now the Political Gold Standard in NC

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The hilariously misnamed state "Ethics Commission" has decided that the numerous complaints about Governor McCrory's falsifi...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Something in the Air

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By our count, we're now up to 11 Republican members of the General Assembly who are not running for reelection next year. Some say they...
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