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President Donald J. Trump will meet with leaders of G7 nations to further our cooperation and relations with several of the world’s largest economies.
Published: Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 @ 8:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Since 2005, North Carolina has provided over $404 million in subsidies (tax credits and grant payments) to film production companies.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 6:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper and Democratic leaders today offered Republican leadership a state budget compromise proposal that would close the health care coverage gap, raise teacher pay, cut taxes for people and guarantee school construction while balancing the budget and saving money in the Rainy Day Fund
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 @ 3:32 pm
By: Governor's Office
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I recently had a series of wonderful chats with Dr. Greg Murphy, who is running for the US Congress, from North Carolina's district 3.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 11:12 am
By: Diane Rufino
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A group of 15 business leaders have signed an op-ed running in papers around the state calling for a bipartisan solution to close the health care coverage gap.
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 9:49 am
By: Governor's Office
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President Donald J. Trump Is Taking A Stand For Democracy and Human Rights In the Western HemisphereWhen Venezuela is free, and Cuba is free, and Nicaragua is free, this will become the first free hemisphere in all of human history.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 4:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Job Creators Network, a nonpartisan organization founded by entrepreneurs like Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, purchased a billboard in New York City slamming socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for killing tens of thousands of jobs for New Yorkers.
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2019 @ 9:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper inducted North Carolina's Ninth Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green, at a ceremony in the North Carolina State Capitol.
Published: Monday, February 18th, 2019 @ 8:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deserves a big "Thank you." In calling for top marginal tax rates of 70 percent, the freshman U.S. representative from New York is attracting attention to often-neglected issues linked to federal tax policy.
Published: Monday, February 4th, 2019 @ 9:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday night, after President Trump delivered his address to the nation regarding immigration, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appeared on MSNBC with host Rachel Maddow, and proceeded to make some of the wildest statements of her neophyte career.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 11:20 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Senate Finance Committee has approved Senate Bill 820, which would raise the amount of corporate handouts to large companies considering moving their headquarters to North Carolina
Published: Thursday, November 29th, 2018 @ 11:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We have to make sure American farmers and their families, wherever they may be, wherever they may go, have the infrastructure projects that they need to compete and grow.
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2018 @ 11:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Walmart has low prices for all kinds of products, from clothing to shoes to groceries and almost everything in between
Published: Wednesday, October 17th, 2018 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently, the Beaufort County GOP elected to support the candidacy of Frankie Waters even though he has publicly professed an alliance with Liberals in support of Liberal issues for Beaufort County; raging, rampant tax escalations all in support of a "progressive Beaufort County".
Published: Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 @ 1:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Advocates for higher taxes and spending were excited to see a new pool of economic activity from which to siphon money, but Gov. Roy Cooper's Department of Revenue (NCDOR) may have overstepped its authority in interpreting state law and a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We need our 9% Approval Rated Congress to give us the tools to save our economy.
Published: Monday, September 24th, 2018 @ 1:48 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Time Magazine’s Aug. 6 special issue focuses on the American South. One of the articles is about Georgia’s film production incentives, entitled “How Georgia Became the Hollywood of the South.”
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 @ 3:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, in light of my decision on May 8, 2018, to cease the participation of the United States in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action of July 14, 2015.
Published: Sunday, August 12th, 2018 @ 10:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 200, the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act. The legislation, introduced by Congressman Don Young (AK), would reauthorize and reform the Magnuson-Stevens Act
Published: Friday, July 13th, 2018 @ 12:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Senate passed a $23.9 billion balanced budget adjustment with bipartisan support yesterday, Thursday, May 31, 2018
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 @ 7:43 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Small business owners embody the American pioneering spirit and remind us that determination can turn aspiration into achievement.
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2018 @ 12:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The econometric issue in question was a focus of mine in graduate school and as a faculty member at Columbia. It is the issue of how to generate causal estimates of the effect of policy changes.
Published: Monday, April 23rd, 2018 @ 6:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Two projects have been awarded North Carolina Film and Entertainment Grants to support productions in Wilmington and the High Point area, Governor Roy Cooper announced today. The awardees include the feature film "Words on Bathroom Walls," an adaptation of an acclaimed novel, and a set of five comme
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 9:42 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Recognizing a new path to revitalization, the State of North Carolina is quickly moving to take advantage of the newly established Opportunity Zones Program, which focuses on distressed, low-income census tracks for targeted economic investments
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 @ 2:08 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Almost as shocking as the allegations of sexual and racial misconduct about Carolina Panthers’ owner Jerry Richardson published Friday was the news Sunday night that the founding owner of the NFL franchise would sell it at season’s end
Published: Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) joined a bipartisan letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross asking the administration to conduct a robust economic analysis to evaluate how any changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would affect changes to the nation's crop and livestock s
Published: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017 @ 11:23 am
By: Thom Tillis
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"We must reduce the tax rate on American businesses so they keep jobs in America, create jobs in America, and compete for workers right here in America -- the America we love."
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017 @ 5:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Soccer promoters in North Carolina's two biggest cities have pursued public and private financing in their bids to build stadiums and attract major league clubs, but questions in Raleigh over a proposed stadium built on public land and hits to Charlotte's public funding
Published: Monday, August 14th, 2017 @ 9:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is a model for ending state sales tax holidays in favor of better policy, a Tax Foundation study finds
Published: Friday, August 4th, 2017 @ 1:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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EGGER Wood Products, one of Europe's leading wood-based materials suppliers for the furniture, wood construction and flooring industries, has selected Davidson County, N.C. as the location for the company's first U.S. manufacturing plant
Published: Monday, July 24th, 2017 @ 4:57 pm
By: Governor's Office
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This Foolishness was first published in August 2010. I am not resurrecting it because Easter just passed but because our Federal Government has not let up on its obsession to get us to spend everything we have.
Published: Saturday, June 24th, 2017 @ 4:14 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The House budget includes more than $3 billion in transportation funding each year of the biennium, in addition to the General Fund appropriations for other state operations
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2017 @ 12:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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