Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Lobbyist turned Cabinet Secretary (and No-Bid-Contract-Awarder) Lanier Cansler has landed himself back in court. Sued for the third time. What’s got Cansler in a mess this time is his predilection for nursing homes – he seems to be about the only person in North Carolina who thinks it’s better to put an elderly person…
The Democrat head of the State Board of Education has gotten himself worked up into such a state about the Republican budget and the Republicans ruining public schools he’s one step from either bursting an artery or starting a riot. To hear him tell it Governor Perdue’s budget will bring light to education and…
Talk about a fellow coming up a day late and a dollar short. Sunday there was a picture in the newspaper of John Edwards standing beside his ‘P.R. specialist’ in front of the courthouse where he’d just been indicted. Unfortunately for Edwards restoring his dented image is beyond the arts of the cleverest…
Speaker Thom Tillis slipped up and left a microphone on during a ‘behind closed doors’ Republican Caucus, so every word he said was beamed straight into the press room at the General Assembly where reporters listened agog to the leaders in the legislature making high-level policy. Policy #1 – On redistricting, House Republican Leader…
The country’s in a muddle and here’s how we got in this mess: The Wall Street Masters of the Universe cross-pollinated with the Washington Politicians and gave birth to the ‘Housing Bubble’ – which burst. As the economy sank the Politicians loudly blamed Wall Street but since, they said, the country couldn’t survive with…
Early the other morning when I walked out the front door and up the sidewalk and leaned down to lift the newspaper the yard was swarming with caterpillars – not the furry caterpillars from years ago who would curl into a ball when touched, who seem to have vanished, but caterpillars with brown shells crossed…
I won’t be blogging for the next two weeks. We’re taking a family trip to France: a week in Paris and three days in Normandy. I’m looking forward to visiting the D-Day beaches. My stepfather, Joe Dickerson of Murfreesboro, was in the first wave at Omaha Beach. He survived to fight on for months,…
Senate Republicans propose merit pay for teachers and state employees. What a terrific idea! But we shouldn’t stop there. I’m thinking merit pay for legislators. We could hold a statewide referendum after every session to let North Carolinians vote on how much legislators should be paid. Should get their full pay, half pay…
A scruffy-looking rock band comes on TV and the leaping in the air singer bawls, “Big bucks, quick bucks, mega bucks, jumbo bucks”…It was an ad for the Lottery Commission. Whose motto seems to be “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break.” Back when the Democrats passed the lottery the legislature also passed…
The political sniping began even as chaos still reigned at the White House Correspondents Dinner. My…
A new nationwide poll shows that, if they could run against each other in 2028, Barack…
Senator Phil Berger was out of touch with voters in his district – and suffered the…