For Release: IMMEDIATE Contact: (877) 9NC-PLAY EDUCATION LOTTERY TO HELP FIGHT RECESSION ANNOUNCES "INSTANT TAX REBATE" SCRATCH-OFF RALEIGH - The North Carolina Education Lottery (NCEL) is going to help keep the economy from going into a recession. The North Carolina Education Lottery is introducing a new “INSTANT TAX REBATE” scratch-off game in [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
- Jan31
Same Story, 3 Headlines
Look at the way 3 of the major media outlets covered the Auditor’s report of campaign use by the offices of Richard Moore and Bev Perdue: N&O: "Perdue, Moore used offices for campaigns"Charlotte Observer: "Auditor finds against Perdue, Moore"WRAL.com: "Moore rips audit critical of computer use" Interesting that N&O and Charlotte articles are the same [...]
- Jan31
Medicaid and Regulated Healthcare: Pure Evil?
From Arnold Kling: Over the past eight weeks, I have been spending a lot of time with my father, who has developed some acute medical problems. For the most part, my focus is day-to-day (or hour-to-hour) on the issues and stresses that arise. But I have also come around to some different points of view [...]
- 1Jan31
More Problems with DOT
The N&O has this article on the newly completed I-795 between Wilson and Goldsboro. Two thoughts from this: 1. There’s an I-795??? Does this just not prove the point that transportation funding is royally screwed up in NC when we’ve got Interstate roads between two small-medium eastern NC towns, yet I-85, I-40, I-540, I-485 and [...]
- Jan30
Another Sunshine Idea for the Dome
Give state employees a percentage of every dollar they save taxpayers — relative to a reasonable baseline. Everyone can agree that state government wastes money. Rewarding government employees to streamline processes and save taxpayer resources (while improving quality, of course) seems like a no-brainer. If businesses do it successfully, why can’t governments? Bureaucrats can be [...]
- 1Jan30
Smithsonian: We’re Still in an Ice Age
Jeff Bennett, a Julian Simon fellow at PERC, took two interesting pictures of a display at the Smithsonian Institution. Now, he’s taking bets on when those displays will be taken down given the ‘climate’ of global warming alarmism. Check ‘em: Now, either these old displays are old news and no longer accepted science (the truth [...]
- Jan30
How Much Do They Make?
To continue on the sunshine in government theme of the week, the Charlotte Observer has a compiled a database to search the pay of NC government employees. Check it out here.
- Jan29
Stimulus Halfway Home
The $146 billion economic "stimulus" bill passed the US House of Representatives earlier today 385-35. The only NC Congressman to vote against it was Rep. Howard Coble (R) who had concerns about the impact of the bill on the deficit (and rightly so). The bill now heads to the Senate where it will be interesting [...]
- 7Jan29
N.C. Partisan Index (NCPI) : Pretty Wicked
For political-junkies-cum-number-crunchers: the NCPI. (House, Senate) As many of North Carolina’s citizens consider whether to run for the state Legislature this year, one of the first questions they ask is whether they have a good possibility of winning. Candidates and political consultants pore over data from past races and voter registration, trying to answer that [...]