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North Carolina has never had a Republican insurance commissioner, but three candidates running in the GOP primary hope to change that - citing consumer welfare rather than their own ambitions as a reason for campaigning.
Published: Tuesday, March 15th, 2016 @ 2:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina policymakers should take steps to make the state even friendlier to direct primary care
Published: Tuesday, March 8th, 2016 @ 11:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Almost anything you mention, I have already blogged about.
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2016 @ 1:58 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Spending more than $173,000 to try to make workers friendlier in Pennsylvania.
Published: Sunday, February 28th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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North Carolina is a top 10 state for job creation in 2015, according to analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by Professor Lee McPheters at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:32 am
By: Chris Downey
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When we speak about "academic freedom" what, exactly, do we mean? How far should academic freedom extend? How do we know when someone claiming it has actually abused it?
Published: Monday, January 26th, 2015 @ 6:17 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Wake County officials insist the launch of another mass transit study is not an attempt to find a friendlier outcome just one year after three transit consultants determined the market couldn’t bear the costs of light rail.
Published: Thursday, December 18th, 2014 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If I wanted to keep poor people poor, there are several government policies I would favor.
Published: Friday, January 3rd, 2014 @ 9:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In fact, there was a moment in the 1990s - a fleeting moment, as it turned out - when the mayors of four of North Carolina's five largest cities were Republicans. Pat McCrory, the future Republican governor, was mayor of Charlotte. Tom Fetzer, the future chairman of the state GOP, was mayor...
Published: Friday, November 8th, 2013 @ 8:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As North Carolina and the rest of the country continue a painfully slow recovery from a painful recession, there is no more important question in public policy than how best to create sustained economic growth.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 @ 12:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What makes news? Three conditions certainly help: scope, rarity, and tragedy.
Published: Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 @ 11:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's tax reform package, cutting the personal income tax rate, is the most significant plan likely to be approved in 2013, an analyst with...
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 @ 9:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal politicians, activists, and commentators have spent months prodding, baiting, and criticizing Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-led state legislature. While occasionally goading their targets into making unwise comments, the obstructionists have failed to keep...
Published: Saturday, July 13th, 2013 @ 11:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal politicians, left-wing activists, and political commentators have spent months prodding, baiting, and criticizing new Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-led state legislature. While occasionally goading their targets into making unwise comments, the obstructionists have...
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 @ 12:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Amid pushback from charter schools and concerns about violations of constitutional separation of powers, a Senate bill creating an independent public...
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2013 @ 4:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If reforming North Carolina's tax code were easy, one of the many tax-reform efforts of the past 20 years would have succeeded. Didn't happen.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2013 @ 10:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Does North Carolina have a lot to learn from other states and countries? Just about everyone active in state politics would say yes to this question, depending on...
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2013 @ 2:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although Raleigh is a much different state capital than it was when I started writing about politics in the late 1980s - the ratios of plaids to pinstripes...
Published: Monday, February 4th, 2013 @ 8:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've changed my mind about the 2012 campaigns for North Carolina governor. I now think they may actually matter.
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2012 @ 6:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It looks like there will be at least three polling outfits regularly tracking voter opinion in North Carolina during the 2012 election cycle.
Published: Thursday, May 31st, 2012 @ 8:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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