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There’s a difference in Art Pope spending ‘his millions’ and how the Black/Basnight Political Machines continue to hold an iron-grip on the North Carolina Legislature. Pope is spending his own money. What he is doing does not cost taxpayers a cent. He’s not trying to get a state contract or a bill passed to help…

It will be Art Pope’s millions against the Basnight/Black “machines” this fall. That is, unless Speaker Jim Black’s train derails because of bad publicity and threatening investigations. The legislative races will be a contest between two different ways of raising the big chunks of cash it takes to win a majority in the State Senate…

Sometimes politics seems to slip from the unusual to the absurd. The Lottery Commission is spending $10 million on advertising. But, according to the Winston-Salem Journal (3-15-06), under state law “No advertising may have the primary purpose of inducing persons to participate in the lottery.” So why is the Lottery Commission spending $10 million on…