Carolina Journal reports on bills designed to decrease government’s role in rural broadband: North Carolina for many years has been a battleground over government-backed broadband services. The issue seemed to…
McClatchy Media quotes Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown and Senate Rules Chairman Tom Apodaca while floating the idea that HB2 will go to referendum in the November election: The idea…
The local daily has an absolutely astonishing article on a subject I haven’t been following: urination in Asheville parking garages. I don’t use the garages, so I have no experience,…
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online on a dispute between state Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown and Gov. Pat McCrory over Brown’s proposal to shift state sales tax distribution.…
The Senate rolled out their tax/finance proposal this afternoon. Senator Berger’s office gives a nice summary of what they are proposing: • Extend the state Job Development Investment Grants (JDIG)…
Really? We’re back here again? Evidently Job Development Investment Grants, historic preservation tax credits, and film incentives are all back on the table, because the governor thinks North Carolina needs…
State House and Senate budget negotiators dragged the sputtering negotiating vehicle from the latest mud hole in which it was swamped on Wednesday, but not without a little tongue-lashing, finger…
Senators Tom Apodaca (R-Henderson), Harry Brown (R-Onslow) and Bob Rucho (R-Mecklenburg) filed Senate Bill 2 to exempt North Carolina from establishing a state-based health insurance exchange or a state-federal partnership…
From the N.C. Senate Republican Leader’s office: Republicans Choose Leadership For New Majority Berger To Be Nominated Next President Pro Tempore Raleigh, N.C. ? At a meeting of the Senate…
But not for tropical weather. The storminess I?m talking about is the potential for electoral wind-shifting. There are two highly competitive state senate contests on the coast. Both districts are…