I had a chance to catch up with Sen. Phil Berger, the president pro tempore of the Senate, today about Gov. Bev Perdue's push for a three-quarters cent increase in the sales tax to pay for education programs.Read More
House Speaker Thom Tillis spoke at a town hall meeting Monday night and, according to the Charlotte Observer, said he was ready to reverse a law that added five days to the school calendar. From the Observer (link):Read More
Lawmakers who make up that joint appropriations committee were outraged — outraged I tell you! — about $5 million the state Department of Transportation spent fixing up a hanger down out the Global Transpark in Kinston. The work was done to he...Read More
We got yet another piece of data today in the ongoing effort to figure out what exactly the state budget did this year, this time in the form of an Office of State Management and Budget memo to the Joint Appropriations Committee.Read More