Health care policy decisions usually come as federal dictates, so it's a rare opportunity when state legislators have full authority to grant North Carolinians more freedom over their health care options.
Published: Monday, September 7th, 2015 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina consumers in less populated areas will receive quicker broadband service thanks, in part, to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Connect America Fund (CAF) and participation from four broadband service provider partners.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 @ 10:58 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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It's going to take a while longer for the North Carolina Legislature to pass its two-year budget. Part of the hold up will be finalizing an agreement on reforming the state's certificate of need (CON) law, which requires health systems and medical providers to first obtain a hall pass from the...
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 9:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The prescription for improving North Carolina's Medicaid program has been a repetitive talking point for the past two years. The initial game plan back in April 2013 was for the state to contract with at least three private managed care organizations (MCOs) to take on full risk for managing...
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an April decision, the N.C. Court of Appeals overturned a jury ruling that Union County public schools had not been provided enough money by the county commission
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 @ 11:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If an industry can provide its product only by using the government to force others to deal with it, then it is not an industry that can be functional in a truly free market. This is the case for the solar power industry, including what are called third-party sales of solar-generated electricity.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2015 @ 5:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina routinely routes tax dollars to private service providers - both directly, in the form of Medicaid reimbursements and college tuition grants, as well as indirectly, in the form of public assistance that recipients spend themselves on food, clothing, shelter, and other goods.
Published: Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 @ 5:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce sponsored a health care breakfast panel where three North Carolina hospital CEOs talked about how competition brings out the best in their health systems. Competition is healthy. Competition is a beautiful thing.
Published: Sunday, April 5th, 2015 @ 11:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's been a little over one week since the House filed HB 200, which would loosen up the state's Certificate of Need (CON) law - a regulatory burden requiring medical providers to ask permission from the state and their competitors before expanding their businesses.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 9:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is easy to understand why North Carolina hospitals are adamant about keeping the state's Certificate of Need (CON) regulations locked in the law books. After all, what law better protects their fortresses from potential competitors who could possibly provide more innovative services in less...
Published: Sunday, December 7th, 2014 @ 6:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Trains are notoriously hard to slow down – even when we need them to.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory signed the following bills into law today
Published: Saturday, July 13th, 2013 @ 10:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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How I do marvel at the credulity of academic man! Especially those professors who publish voluminously but cannot write, who take their Marx with white wine and brie while thousands of adjuncts support their families on French fries and English composition, who preach a tolerance as...
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 @ 4:50 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A contentious Senate committee hearing Wednesday on a bill to phase out multimillion-dollar state tax subsidies to select renewable energy
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2013 @ 9:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Opening an email sent by the Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce I saw something that caught my eye. The subject was "League of Women Voters to Provide Voter Education Training."
Published: Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 @ 10:34 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Most people think of occupations requiring licenses as those like medicine and law. North Carolina, however, has made it state's business to certify auctioneers, barbers, librarians, manicurists, and over a hundred others.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 2:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Shelter Providers Political Action Committee Enterprise (SPPACE), a non-partisan political action committee made up of Realtors(TM), homebuilders, ommercial and multifamily developers and commercial real estate brokers, has endorsed Dan Forest for NC Lt. Governor.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 11:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Clay Hansen Evans, 31, of 434 Creekside Drive, Swan Quarter, died Saturday, July 9, 2011, at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville. Born in Beaufort County on Dec. 8, 1979, he was the son of Martin and Carol Wolfe Evans.
Published: Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 @ 12:55 pm
By: Announcements
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In 1787, a group of brilliant Americans met in Philadelphia with the task of setting up a government to effectively manage a union of independent, and sovereign states.
Published: Monday, October 4th, 2010 @ 10:09 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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