carolina cronyism

The hearings on which the governor worries the people of North Carolina are wasting time and money on wouldn't be necessary IF the governor would be open and transparent about pipeline permits and the Memorandum of Understanding.

The jaw-dropping extent of North Carolina's incentives package for this "transformative" project would have eclipsed its benefits for North Carolinians.

Seven out of 10 executives from incentivized companies didn't even know their companies were getting an incentive from North Carolina.

So South Carolina is beating us in this made-up game. How are we comparing otherwise?

A bill to sweeten the pot with more government giveaways for "big boys with deep pockets" only gives good-government, free-market advocates pause, it seems.

Now North Carolina isn't having to plumb new depths in cronyism like some mad Captain Nemo. Make no mistake, that's what our leaders were fully prepared to do.

If you're a manufacturer or lobbyist for electric vehicles, forget lottery fever; Gov. Cooper just flung the door wide open for government cronyism in your field. As they say in lottery ads: "You may already be a winner!"

The idea that we could save the climate by cutting our emissions reductions just a mite faster than we already have been doing for two decades is daft.