Long-term incompetence in the Elizabeth City Finance Department has led to financial woes for the city
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 @ 9:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Report Shows Over $5 Billion in Federal Investments Empowered North Carolina Students to Experience Major Learning Recovery
Published: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 6:20 am
By: Governor's Office
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As federal funding to schools for covid relief is entering its last phase, a lot of people are beginning to ask the question: What difference has $172 billion made for students and our schools?
Published: Monday, April 17th, 2023 @ 11:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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“Set some money aside for a rainy day.” That’s financial advice anyone discussing finances worth their salt would include.
Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 9:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Debt broken down
Published: Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021 @ 11:45 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Nellie Liang, Lily Batchelder, Ben Harris, and Jonathan Davidson to serve in key roles at the Department of Treasury.
Published: Sunday, March 14th, 2021 @ 1:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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For the first time in state history, the governor is introducing a budget proposal in August.
Published: Monday, August 31st, 2020 @ 10:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell says a revised Senate Bill 117 would eliminate some costly benefit options and impose forfeiture of retirement benefits for some criminal offenses
Published: Friday, December 7th, 2018 @ 2:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones, a longtime deficit hawk, continued efforts to reign in our nation’s runaway debt, and cosponsored H.R. 5572, the One Percent Spending Reduction Act, also known as the “Penny Plan.”
Published: Friday, April 20th, 2018 @ 7:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yesterday evening, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3), a long-time deficit hawk and a warrior against wasteful spending, voted once again for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution (H.J.Res. 2)
Published: Saturday, April 14th, 2018 @ 12:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Obamacare's failing co-ops (consumer-operated and oriented health plans) simply reinforce the fact that government intervention in health care creates all sorts of problems.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 6:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) gave this statement on President Obama’s FY 2016 budget proposal.
Published: Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015 @ 12:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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“It’s about time Kay Hagan finally admitted she could have helped North Carolina’s long-term unemployed, but the fact is she’s a year late and $600 million worth of benefits short.
Published: Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 @ 2:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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There is an old saying, “A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.” After years of mismanagement, our state’s economy is weighed down by $2.5 billion owed to Washington for our unemployment insurance debt.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 10:50 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Regular readers of this site know we tend to be highly critical of congresswoman Renee Ellmers (R-NC-2). Miss Renee tends to give us plenty of ammo every time she gets in front of a representative of the mainstream media - like HERE.
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This is the final week 70,000 jobless workers in North Carolina will receive a federal emergency unemployment compensation check. But Dale Folwell, the state official in charge of jobless benefits, says reports claiming that as many as 170,000 unemployed state residents might lose federal...
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 @ 10:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While April 15 is on the minds of many taxpayers scurrying to meet the income tax filing deadline, two other dates - April 10 and April 18 - might also...
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 6:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Chapel Hill is known mainly for two things: (1) Great basketball and (2) loony-tunes lefty nuttiness. Basketball is down a little bit this year.
Published: Monday, March 25th, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Any plan for rejuvenating North Carolina's economy by drawing down and spending more federal money is a plan for failure.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 5:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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US House Speaker John Boehner and his team have pushed through several pieces of legislation opposed by a majority of Republicans, but supported by a majority of Democrats, and say they will do it again and again.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2013 @ 10:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The last week of February must have been a slow news period, because all we seemed to hear about was a heated discussion between Gene Sperling and Bob Woodward.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 8:07 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Freshman Representative Paul Tine (D) offered amendments on two controversial bills over the past two weeks.
Published: Monday, February 18th, 2013 @ 12:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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It's amazing how Americans have sat by and allowed the statists in DC to ignore, rewrite and basically stomp all over the specifics of the U.S. Constitution.
Published: Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 @ 6:22 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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How many times have you tried to have a serious conversation about current events only to have your listeners say, "I'm not interested in politics"?
Published: Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
By: Alicia Colon
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The world is full of imponderables. We have been treated over the last year or so to a seemingly unending diatribe about the need for the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes (whatever that is).
Published: Sunday, January 6th, 2013 @ 4:50 am
By: Jim Bispo
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In 1972, 1980, 1984, and 1988 the GOP ran a national ticket touting the promise of limited government and tax cuts. The Republicans saw smashing, overwhelming victories in each of those years.
Published: Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 @ 1:01 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We've moved from Boehner and Obama meeting privately to McConnell and Biden meeting privately. Never mind those 534 OTHER FOLKS, duly elected by the people, on Capitol Hill and that pesky old Constitution thingie.
Published: Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013 @ 2:42 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The ruling class and their media lapdogs are pulling out all stops to whip up a state of frenzy over this impending fiscal cliff.
Published: Tuesday, January 1st, 2013 @ 12:03 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It is a very important question since the Democrats are driving the fiscal bus, and have been for the last four years. The obvious question is: Will they drive the nation over the fiscal cliff on Monday?
Published: Saturday, December 29th, 2012 @ 9:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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2012 was the year we finally admitted that, much like a ship that sails for days one degree off course, our country and our state are lost and spiritually sick.
Published: Thursday, December 27th, 2012 @ 10:16 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The mainstream media is breathlessly counting down to New Year's Day, when the so-called fiscal cliff kicks in.
Published: Thursday, December 27th, 2012 @ 5:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Publisher's note: Brant Clifton watches well ObamaCare, and its infinite ramifications, in his "bare knuckles" Conservative online publication known as The Daily Haymaker.
Published: Wednesday, December 26th, 2012 @ 10:36 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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