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A few days a week, I ride a Triangle Transit 301 bus to and from the palatial Civitas HQ in the Warehouse District of Raleigh. But even as a transit rider, my blood runs cold when I hear government planners are plotting ways to bring throw taxpayers' money at light-rail systems and commuter rail...
Published: Wednesday, February 11th, 2015 @ 1:47 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Call it North Carolina's money pit. The North Carolina Global Transpark (GTP) in Kinston describes itself as "a 2,500-acre industrial/airport site situated strategically in Eastern North Carolina."
Published: Thursday, February 5th, 2015 @ 9:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Well, the effort to bring party disloyalty into the debate on HB 1224 blew up rather unceremoniously. Apparently, some "pain-in-the-ass-teabagger web site" spilled the beans before the plan could get underway.
Published: Monday, September 1st, 2014 @ 9:54 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It's an election year and counties once again can't resist the urge to put a quarter-cent sales tax hike on the November ballot, hoping to reap the rewards of millions in extra revenue, all with the consent of taxpayers.
Published: Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 @ 10:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In February, Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler declared that the North Carolina General Assembly had no authority to determine telecommunications policy in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 @ 9:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A number of years ago, our Legislature had a new idea: Let's follow many other states and keep NC Education strong by putting in a Lottery to raise money.
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 1:08 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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The liars in the remnants of our state's mainstream media would have you believe state government was working like a charm prior to the January 2013 inauguration of Republican governor Pat McCrory.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 12:56 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Today, Beaufort County GOP Chairman Keith Kidwell announced he will run for Beaufort County Commissioner. In his announcement, Chairman Kidwell emphasized that the County needs a leader with business, budgeting and executive experience.
Published: Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 @ 7:22 am
By: Keith D Kidwell
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It's a far cry from those heady days in 2008 and 2009 when a certain former state senator from Greensboro aspiring to be a US senator was telling us that we were going to eat every bit of our ObamaCare, and we were going to like it.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2013 @ 6:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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There’s a great piece over at Forbes talking about how The White House is considering expanding the subsidies in ObamaCare to include not just the uninsured but ALSO UNION MEMBERS.
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 4:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Tomatoes that don't rot for more than a year, fish with glow-in-the-dark blood vessels, sunscreen made from watermelons, and super-cancer-fighting broccoli: those are but a few of the...
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 5:04 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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While the McCrory administration is hailing an overhaul of the way North Carolina recruits business, open government advocates worry that...
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2013 @ 7:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A multimillion-dollar computer system to collect and analyze massive amounts of statewide medical data and designed to improve North Carolina health...
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 @ 10:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday, I got my bill from Duke Energy Progress, or whatever it is this week. I sure was glad that by paying it I was helping out the beleaguered pig farmers of North Carolina.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2013 @ 9:09 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This week's Bad Bill of the Week is SB 362, Study Energy Efficiency Standards. Sponsored by Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird (D-Orange), this bill would create a study of an ineffective "tiered" billing format for electricity, impossible goals for electricity-use reduction, and an ambiguous "pollution tax."
Published: Thursday, April 4th, 2013 @ 2:11 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Green energy advocates characterize it as a jobs-killing bill, and the House leadership hasn't made it easy for the measure to move forward, but state Rep. Mike Hager said support is building for House Bill 298, his effort to end costly state tax subsidies for renewable energy.
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 @ 12:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last year on March 19, the then executive director of the Economic Development Commission presented his report for 2011 and his assurances for EDC's coming achievements in 2012.
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 10:29 pm
By: Warren Smith
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On October 1, 2012 at approximately 3:30 p.m. I saw a woman walking down the yellow line on John Small Avenue near Frank's Pizza. She appeared to be in a daze and was oblivious to the vehicles whizzing by.
Published: Monday, October 8th, 2012 @ 6:54 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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New York Times readers learned in early August of Steve Cooksey, the Charlotte-area "diabetes warrior," who has sued the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition because it has tried to censor Cooksey's blog touting the health benefits of the low-carb, high-protein "paleo" diet.
Published: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012 @ 3:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The official theme of the first night of the Democratic National Convention may have been "Americans Coming Together," but anyone listening to the speeches and watching the videos heard little more than a litany of grievances from the swamps of identity politics.
Published: Thursday, September 6th, 2012 @ 9:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I recently had an eye-opening conversation with an activist who is arguably a mover-and-shaker / household name in Charlotte area Republican politics. This person has been following the drama in the state House District 6 runoff between Mattie Lawson and Arthur Williams.
Published: Sunday, July 29th, 2012 @ 1:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Remember the embarrassing Solyndra debacle perpetrated by the federal government? You would think that North Carolina lawmakers would have learned a lesson about the futility of granting government privileges to inefficient "green" energy schemes. Think again.
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 @ 7:38 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As the John Locke Foundation predicted when the doors opened in 2008, Raleigh's city-subsidized Mint restaurant is closing its doors after a net loss of $400,000.
Published: Sunday, April 15th, 2012 @ 5:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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