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Haywood County commissioners and area municipal officials are hoping a proposed 50-percent increase in the region's occupancy tax will help them build capital projects and spur area tourism. But they face opposition from one of the region's legislators, and that could scotch the tax hike...
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 10:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In his first address to Congress President Obama argued that the United States needs to put far more people through college so that our economy will remain competitive with those of other nations. He set forth a goal of again having "the highest proportion of college graduates in the world."
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2014 @ 12:07 am
By: John William Pope Center
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He never served as president, governor, or U.S. senator, but Josephus Daniels was one of the most important and powerful figures in 20th-century North Carolina political history. Dr. Lee Craig, head of the Department of Economics and distinguished undergraduate professor at N.C. State University...
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lake Phelps in Tyrrell County, first discovered about 1755, is located in the middle of the swampland known as "the Great Eastern Dismal," or the "Great Alligator Dismal."
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 @ 11:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the most consistent findings in economic research is that occupational licensing restricts the supply of service providers in the licensed field and thereby drives up prices.
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After the English Civil War, in 1660 King Charles II was restored to the throne, and the crown rewarded its political allies with vast tracts of land in British America. Eight tracts were bestowed to eight lords proprietors in Carolina (later divided into modern-day North and South Carolina).
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 4:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the mid-1700s, Edenton served as a major port, and Robert Carteret, the last of the Lords Proprietors and the Earl of Granville, requested that a grand house be designed for governmental business, including tax collection.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 10:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Friends of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
Published: Wednesday, August 28th, 2013 @ 11:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If you want a better understanding of why politicians do what they do, you have to look underneath the surface. You can't just accept what...
Published: Sunday, June 30th, 2013 @ 6:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Born on April 29, 1952 in the town of Kannapolis (Cabarrus County), North Carolina, Ralph Dale Earnhardt, like other racing oriented families such as the Pettys and the Labontes, was the son of a NASCAR driver.
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2013 @ 1:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Occupational licensing has been a frequent target for our Bad Bill of the Week series, so it's not surprising that we didn't have to wait long into the 2013 General Assembly Session for a burdensome licensing bill to be filed in the General Assembly.
Published: Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 @ 11:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina features over 50 occupational licensing boards. The state licenses more occupations than most other states and is one of the more aggressive in licensing jobs for the poor or less educated.
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2013 @ 3:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's aggressive approach to occupational licensing raises prices and protects current members of a profession more than it protects consumers.
Published: Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As much as I would to claim this high level of creativity in expressing succinctly the social malaise that exists within the Occupy Movement, I cannot.
Published: Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 @ 11:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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 overthrow of the medieval guild system," wrote Milton Friedman in his seminal work Capitalism and Freedom, "was an indispensable early step in the rise of freedom in the Western world.
Published: Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Well, the freak show in Charlotte is winding down. We've been treated to a celebration of abortion, the booing of God, and serious - I think - attempts to make us believe things are going GREAT.
Published: Friday, September 7th, 2012 @ 2:33 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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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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There's been a sudden explosion of purple hair and tongue-piercings in the vicinity of Trade & Tryon. Barney Frank -- a/k/a "The Banking Queen" -- checked into his hotel with a belt strapped around his neck.
Published: Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 @ 10:50 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Republican Secretary of State candidate Ed Goodwin accused incumbent Democrat Elaine Marshall of backing what he labeled a subversive organization with revolutionary goals during a candidate forum Thursday night.
Published: Sunday, August 26th, 2012 @ 6:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In marking their recent anniversary, the folks at The Ol' Reliable kept talking about how they long ago shirked their role as chief shill and water-carrier for the NC Democrat Party.
Published: Sunday, August 26th, 2012 @ 1:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The specter of occupational licensing is once again growing in North Carolina, threatening to make it harder for people to find work. In this case the culprit is SB 447, a bill that would dramatically increase the licensing and regulation of landscape contractors in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, June 29th, 2012 @ 3:34 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Mr. Randolph “Cupid” Keys Sr., a resident of 402 E. 10th St., Washington, died Monday, May 7, 2012.
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2012 @ 12:48 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Randolph “Cupid” Keys Sr., a resident of 402 E. 10th St., Washington, died Monday, May 7, 2012.
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 @ 2:04 am
By: Announcements
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Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the political water, here comes the Occupy shark, back on the prowl with its ravenous ... Oh, phooey. I can't make the joke work. There has never been anything remotely scary about the Occupy movement.
Published: Friday, April 6th, 2012 @ 9:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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You'd think they want to snatch your firstborn. I'm talking about the ugly portrait that's been painted of risktakers, innovators, and venture capitalists by politicians, pundits, and the Occupy movement.
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2012 @ 10:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Protests across the country inspired by Occupy Wall Street featured plenty of people in their 20s. They fumed about everything from a lack of jobs to the cost of a college education.
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2012 @ 8:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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These two videos, sent to me by contributor George Schryer, express what I've noticed for some time, the seeds of which were sown almost three decades ago.
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2012 @ 10:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Although those involved may wish us to forget, there were actually two attempts over the past year to make a certain statistic, one percent, into a political cause here in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 @ 4:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I learned this week that a far-left, ultra-liberal website, "Blue NC", is attacking this year's CLC. And, the owner of the website is even offering to pay protesters who want to "Occupy" the conference!
Published: Friday, February 10th, 2012 @ 5:36 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I am certainly glad that the Prez was able to escape from D.C. and spend Christmas with his family.
Published: Monday, January 16th, 2012 @ 12:53 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Long time passing ...
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2012 @ 6:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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What has become both a most celebrated, and scorned political movement is now at the level of full accountability to the public.
Published: Saturday, November 26th, 2011 @ 8:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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So what about the "Wall Street Protestors"?? Do they have a point?? Maybe. It looks a lot like Woodstock without the rain and mud; well, the mud anyway.
Published: Sunday, October 30th, 2011 @ 9:00 am
By: Jim Bispo
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