North Carolina’s tax and fee collections continued to improve from a year ago, according to the latest General Fund Monthly Report from the Office of the State Controller. Individual income…
Laurel Park wants to raise taxes four cents. There are a lot of rich people there, but there are some poor people, too. If they were all rich, I’d say…
How many teachers would $16.2 million a year pay? More importantly, would children be able to learn if fishies got silted for want of man-controlled stream buffers? During its Dec.…
A recent editorial in the Greenville Daily Reflector touting reform of North Carolina’s electoral redistricting process mentions the John Locke Foundation’s support for the concept. (Real potential for a solution…
Sorry, no cute headline this time. Invasive species #1: Hydrilla, the aquatic equivalent of kudzu. From the Fayetteville Observer: Nobody knew what it was at first, just an incredibly fast-spreading…
Meanwhile, across the street in Asheville City Hall, city council approved plans for Phase I of what is known as the Lake Craig Project. It synthesizes multiple problems into a…
Are you happy now that the state saved all this money for you, and yet needs you to pay more to sustain appropriations? Maybe we could fire a few more…
The Herald-Sun is reporting on a vote scheduled for today by the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund. If approved, the project under consideration would provide $679,000 in state funds…
A split N.C. Court of Appeals panel has ruled (in Goldston v. State) that former Gov. Mike Easley did not have the power to transfer $80 million out of the…
…Don’t be surprised when you get stiffed. Gov. Bev Perdue wants to pull $100 million from the Clean Water Management Trust Fund because — well, you know why. Problem is…
Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight is on a never change campaign. Two weeks ago, addressing the idea of term limits for his position and for House Speaker, he said…
From Tom Campbell’s Spin Cycle: Corruption in state government We hear that Nick Garrett, friend to Governor Easley, has resigned his position as a member of the board of the…