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US wealth gap putting squeeze on state revenue.
Published: Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 @ 9:24 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We don't know what the composition of the North Carolina General Assembly will look like after the November election. Republicans are favored to hold their majorities in both legislative chambers, to be sure, but their edge could shrink a lot, shrink a little, or stay roughly the same (a net increas
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 11:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Update on the weather for tonight and tomorrow morning. We hope everyone has signed up for Hyper-Reach or has some other warning system for their cell phones and home phone as they might need them tonight.
Published: Thursday, May 15th, 2014 @ 5:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a memo sent earlier today, Governor Pat McCrory asked all state government leaders to slow spending in order to protect the state's strong financial position.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 5:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On March 28th and 29th we will hold our 2014 Conservative Leadership Conference at the Marriot Crabtree Hotel in Raleigh. Tickets are on sale now, but you can win two of them, plus a one-night stay at the conference hotel...on us!
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 12:08 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Could President Obama's signature program, the Affordable Care Act, be responsible for declining rates of growth in U.S. health care spending? That's what some Obamacare advocates are claiming. To do so, however, would require that they be either embarrassingly uninformed or shamelessly dishonest...
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 10:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This is an update on DHHS' most recent interaction with USDA.
Published: Sunday, January 26th, 2014 @ 11:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (PotashCorp) announced today that it is taking the difficult but necessary step to reduce its workforce in Canada, the United States and Trinidad by approximately 18 percent from current levels.
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2013 @ 11:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Nor can the fault be laid solely at the feet of George W. Bush, or North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, or former governors Bev Perdue and Mike Easley.
Published: Thursday, October 31st, 2013 @ 6:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Richard Burr, Renee Ellmers and Bob Pittenger - take note. It would appear that Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are blowing smoke up your posteriors.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2013 @ 1:56 am
By: Brant Clifton
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In the darkest days of the recent financial crisis, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales had a bad feeling. He had seen this story before, and the ending didn't turn out well. So Zingales wrote a book titled...
Published: Friday, June 28th, 2013 @ 9:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We have a "daily morning paper" that is delivered (sometimes as early as 9 a.m.) every day except Monday. I rather doubt that the late delivery can be blamed on the carrier.
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2013 @ 11:03 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Established by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) in 1933, the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was one of two early New Deal programs intended to revive U.S. industry after years of contraction.
Published: Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 @ 7:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that state legislators have returned to work, one of their most important jobs is to approve a new state budget by July 1.
Published: Friday, February 1st, 2013 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina was once a growth champion of the national economy. Between 1981 and 1999, North Carolina's average personal income growth was the 4th fastest in the nation.
Published: Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 @ 11:53 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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For many of the unemployed, prosperous times are a cloudy memory. More than 46 million Americans now feed their families with the aid of government food stamps. Look around you right now.
Published: Monday, October 1st, 2012 @ 11:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the first time in decades, a trio of Republicans are seeking their party's nomination to this district's General Assembly seat in the state House.
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 @ 9:25 pm
By: Jeff Aydelette
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I have come across a copy of an e mail which appears to have been sent to the members of the EDC and Committee of 100. It is dated June 17, 2011 and represents itself to be a prep sheet sent on the authority of the Executive Director of the EDC and the Chairwoman of the EDC to rehearse supporters.
Published: Friday, July 22nd, 2011 @ 4:25 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Another "Dear Commissioner" letter from Warren Smith is worth publishing again.
Published: Friday, May 27th, 2011 @ 9:47 am
By: Warren Smith
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