Not a great week for McCrory
It hasn’t been a great week for Governor Pat McCrory. It started out well enough, with McCrory basking in the glow of generally favorable headlines after his weekend dog adoption event at the... Read More
NC SPIN Posts by Chris Fitzsimon
Public funding for discrimination
Thanks to Governor Pat McCrory and the current General Assembly, your tax dollars will soon be subsidizing discrimination across North Carolina and paying to teach children bizarre fundamentalist... Read More
The scramble on the right continues
The folks on the Right are scrambling these days with their political narrative and talking points about the state budget that the Republican General Assembly and Governor Pat McCrory came up with... Read More
The new culture of corruption in NC
Governor Pat McCrory spent more than five years campaigning for his current job and it seemed like he couldn’t give a stump speech without complaining about what he called “the culture of... Read More
Sifting through the cloud of eduction rhetoric
It has been quite a few days in the debate about public education in North Carolina. Teachers, parents, and civic leaders staged walk-ins at schools across the state to draw attention to the... Read More
The transparently political two percent solution for education
It’s no secret in Raleigh that Republican leaders are worried about the political fallout from the cuts to education they made in the budget passed by the General Assembly and signed by Governor Pat... Read More
Spinning the voter suppression law
Governor Pat McCrory and other supporters of the sweeping voter suppression law passed by the General Assembly this summer are working hard to make sure people don’t really understand how regressive... Read More
McCrory unfiltered—and unfettered by the truth
One Monday early in July Governor Pat McCrory wrongly blamed President Obama for the state’s decision to cut off federal emergency unemployment benefits to 70,000 long-term laid off workers in the... Read More
Restoring power to the people
The folks at the North Carolina Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform (of which NC Policy Watch is a member) are on a tour of the state these days, renewing their call for a long overdue... Read More
Monday numbers
16—number of days the federal government was shutdown (“What You Can Get For The Price Of A Shutdown, Think Progress, October 17, 2013) 3.6 billion—amount in dollars of the cost of the shutdown... Read More
