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The Empire Whines Back

by Daniel Gilligan | Mar 14, 2014 | Environment, NC Politics, NCGov | 7 comments

Welcome guest blogger Daniel Gilligan. Daniel is a researcher who has worked on political campaigns in North Carolina and across the country. Pat McCrory is at it again. Now he says we need to “keep the politics out” of coal ash clean up, which has become an...

Quit whining

by Thomas Mills | Mar 12, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Education, Environment, NC Politics | 4 comments

What whining! In this morning’s News & Observer, Peder Zane bemoans Democratic attacks on Republican policies, complaining that they are over-the-top and not based in reality. In particular, he says Democrats are complaining about things that happened while they...

Inconclusive evidence

by Thomas Mills | Feb 23, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Environment | 5 comments

When politicians and businesses want to avoid some environmental regulation, they often cite “inconclusive data” or “inconclusive evidence” as the reason to hold off on any oversight. It’s what Republicans routinely say about climate change, even though the data is,...

Do your job

by Thomas Mills | Feb 21, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Environment, NC Politics, NCGov

Remember when Republicans were the party of personal responsibility? Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and all that stuff? Seems that only applied to poor people. When it comes to corporations–who are also people, you know–it’s a whole different story....

Accountability issues

by Thomas Mills | Feb 18, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Environment, NC Politics, NCGov | 2 comments

Another Pat McCrory cabinet secretary is under scrutiny again. First, it was Kieren Shanahan, the Secretary of Public Safety who thought that the job was a part-time gig. McCrory apparently couldn’t see the potential conflicts of interests or the problem of Shanahan...

“Duke” McCrory and ALEC’s energy policies

by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 7, 2013 | Economic Development, Environment, NCGOP, NCGov | 4 comments

It appears ALEC has instructed Pat McCrory to weaken our Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard. McCrory’s comments weren’t conclusive, but they used enough right-wing code words like “role of government” to communicate a destructive intent. We’d better get ready for...