Weekend wound up

Dear Pat McCrory,

Earlier this week, we asked if you could please explain something. We wanted to know how you will execute your campaign promise to do strategic infrastructure planning under a new law that forbids scenario modeling related to sea-level rise.

Waiting on Kay.

Being a pro-business Democrat is a good thing; being a corporate-owned Democrat, less so. Working with leadership to better serve North Carolina is a good thing; responding "how high?" when party bosses and well-paid alums tell you to jump, less so.

But, of course, this is insane.

Fall fell

Here's some good news. The Republican economy sucks so bad that it's almost mathematically impossible for us to slip into another technical recession.

But that won't stop the GOP from trying.

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