Businesses are on the mend from government-induced Covid shutdowns.
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2022 @ 7:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Proposal would use $1.3 billion or 20% out of the anticipated $4.2 billion of this year’s state surplus.
Published: Thursday, June 9th, 2022 @ 9:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Senate passes Medicaid Expansion Bill 44-2 on Wednesday. H.B. 149 also includes the SAVE Act, which would address needs in rural areas and giving nurses more independence, and partial repeal of some Certificate of Need Laws
Published: Wednesday, June 8th, 2022 @ 1:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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During the Covid pandemic, government concocted many costly, “temporary” policies
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 @ 8:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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“I say with the lives of 62 million unborn boys and girls ended in abortion since 1973, generations of mothers enduring heartbreak and loss that can last a lifetime: Madame Vice President, how dare you?”
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 2:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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I strongly oppose proposed rules that would impose onerous and ultimately harmful requirements for competitive grants under the federal Charter Schools Program.
Published: Tuesday, April 26th, 2022 @ 1:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly shutting down CNN’s new subscription streaming service, CNN+, after the service experienced significant struggles in attracting an audience.
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2022 @ 12:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
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All economic activity is planned. Buying, selling, saving, investing, and all other activities are the result of someone’s plan.
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2022 @ 1:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, the Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission (PEPSC), a commission created by legislation in 2017 to advise the State Board of Education on establishing high standards for educators, presented a comprehensive teacher pay proposal
Published: Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 @ 2:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are two reasons a corporation would take government incentives to move into North Carolina:
Published: Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 @ 8:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Earlier this year Gov. Cooper issued an Executive Order that would effectively transform the state’s entire economy.
Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2022 @ 8:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A city in California has reportedly approved $200,000 in funding for “initial research and program design of a guaranteed income pilot program” proposed by DAP Health and Queer Works
Published: Friday, April 8th, 2022 @ 8:37 am
By: Daily Wire
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A Vietnamese automaker has announced plans to build a $4 billion electric-vehicle assembly and battery-manufacturing plant at Triangle Innovation Point in Moncure, about 30 miles west of the Triangle.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 5:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A year ago, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), allocating $8.85 billion to North Carolina. More than $5 billion of this was sent to the state and allocated by the General Assembly in the latest budget.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 8:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently the John Locke Foundation team met with candidates running for local office. We highlighted critical principles for local government’s fiscal health and sustainability.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For all their virtue-signaling about caring for the poor, the progressive game plan to help the poor has an abysmal track record.
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 12:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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My previous brief discussed Gov. Roy Cooper’s sweeping executive order to change the state’s entire economy and state senators’ letter questioning it.
Published: Thursday, February 24th, 2022 @ 11:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Work gives purpose, creates abundance, instills pride and responsibility, and promotes the economic growth that we see today.
Published: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 11:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Three months after opening, the Carolina Connector (CCX) intermodal transportation facility in Edgecombe County is already helping ease national supply chain shortages and bolstering economic development prospects.
Published: Friday, February 18th, 2022 @ 4:45 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Company plans to invest $1 billion to build new manufacturing facility in Concord
Published: Saturday, January 29th, 2022 @ 7:44 am
By: Governor's Office
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My previous research brief discussed that last year Gov. Roy Cooper pledged over $1.3 billion in corporate welfare to just 58 corporations from state “economic development” incentives programs whose stated purposes are about “job creation.”
Published: Monday, January 24th, 2022 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina set another record for new business creation in 2021.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 8:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In 2019, Gov. Roy Cooper pledged $146.0 million in corporate welfare to 66 corporations. In 2020, amid shutting down and crippling small businesses with extreme executive orders, Cooper pledged $519.3 million in corporate giveaways to just 48 corporations.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 2:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Beaufort County Commissioners will get another bite at the patriotic apple, a fruit they far too often hold in great disdain, to pass this necessary resolution.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 8:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, who believes in vaccine mandates so much that he issued the first vaccine mandate in the United States targeting children in public and private schools, has a different view of the state’s prison guards, whose union donated a whopping $1.75 million.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 1:11 pm
By: Daily Wire
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If your business model requires ongoing subsidies and incentives, your business isn’t selling a product, it’s having to lobby nonstop. ZeroHedge reports on a major new threat to the rooftop solar business in California.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 11:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The far-left NC Policy Watch just published a report on childhood poverty and hunger in North Carolina, co-authored by the controversial and hypocritical UNC law professor Gene Nichol.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since the release of North Carolina’s conference budget on November 15th, there has been much speculation over the budget’s promise of a large grant award to a qualifying company that will invest in Randolph County’s “megasite industrial park.”
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 8:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The concept of limited government is simple. A limited, just government, as summed up in the Declaration of Independence, protects the rights to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 10:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) has proposed a statewide ban on natural gas hookups in new buildings, one of the more extreme parts of her plans to combat climate change.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 11:17 pm
By: Daily Wire
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