Martin Lancaster Spits on the Law

So who is Martin Lancaster? He’s the about-to-retire president of the North Carolina state community college system (a highly paid bureaucrat government employee). And he openly supports lawbreaking and directs his employees to ignore the laws that he doesn’t happen to like. Did I mention he’s a government employee?
At issue is the [...]

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NC Bribes More Teachers

Well, that’s not exactly the headline to this article, but it should be. Or maybe a better title would be “More North Carolina Teachers Accept Bribes.” How about “North Carolina Leads the Nation in Bribed Teachers?” Well, they’re all more accurate and truthful than the actual headline about “Teacher Certification.”
The certification they [...]

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$11,000 for NC Bureacrats?

Oh, and that’s $11,000 from EACH family, EACH year to pay for government bureaucrats to do, quite literally, nothing.
tax dollars pay 100 percent of premium costs for current state employees and retirees to enroll in the state health plan. This group includes employees of state agencies and universities, local public schools and local community colleges.
people [...]

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Les Merritt to Track Government Grants

Les Merritt is the North Carolina State Auditor. He has announced his plans to track state government grants to local governments. This could be interesting because over $13 billion flows from the state to local governments — and many “non-profits” are funded by local governments. Do you suppose a large portion of [...]

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Max Borders on North Carolina Insurance

I happened across this article in the Fayetteville Observer written by Max Borders. Hey, is that a real name? For some reason that reminds me of Homer Simpson the time he became “Max Powers.” Anyway, Mr. Borders really gets it. He writes about the high cost of insurance in North Carolina [...]

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NC Government Road Math

Be careful when you ask government to do math. Keep in mind, just about anything government does, they WILL screw it up. Experts claim (that should be a signal that you’re dealing with bureaucrats who have no goal other than to get more control and spend more money):
Several transportation advocates pointed to four [...]

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A Port in the Mountains

Yes, brought to you by the Democrats in the North Carolina General Assembly. They are actually spending taxpayer money (a LOT of money) to study whether they should build a port in the mountains of Western North Carolina. For those who aren’t aware of the geography of western North Carolina, let’s start at [...]

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NC Lottery Continues to Fail

Are you surprised? The North Carolina Lottery is trying to expand to more stores — because they’re losing sales. Of course, this is the same government-run monopoly that’s been losing money since it started — and has never met it’s projected goals. So why aren’t retailers selling tickets? Because they’re not [...]

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ACLU Stops Bibles in Schools

Hey look, more evidence that shows government should completely get out of the education business entirely:

Gideons Keep Out of North Carolina’s Elementary Schools!
A North Carolina school district is putting an end to the donations of Bibles to elementary school kids.
The Cumberland County school system says state law limits the practice strictly to high schools and [...]

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Government Education Sells Fat

So, what’s the job of the “public” education system?
It’s very simple: We have to pay our bills.
There you have it. The school system exists to make money, and they’re proud of it. No, I’m not saying that they shouldn’t pay their bills, but I do question a system that claims to be “fighting” [...]

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