Crediting budget reforms made by the recent session of the General Assembly, Gov. Pat McCrory announced on Thursday the acceleration of four major transportation projects, including the final leg of the eastern section of the Winston-Salem Northern Beltway, the Asheville Connector, The I-485 and Wed
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) released Wednesday, January 06, 2016 a letter to Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:20 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Don't you just love it when politicians who know NOTHING about a subject try to lecture people who DO KNOW something about a subject? Law enforcement and military folks get more than their fair share of it. And so do businesspeople.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:12 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Washington City Council Meeting Agenda for January 11, 2016
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:08 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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I used to have the naive idea that journalists based their editorial decisions on independent standards that obtained no matter who was involved in a news story.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tax Reform In North Carolina: John Locke Foundation Principles Move The State In The Right DirectionThe Tax Foundation estimates that, once all reforms are fully phased in, North Carolina's overall business tax climate ranking will be 13th best in the country. According to the 2016 index, North Carolina is now ranked as the 15th most attractive business tax climate. Given where we started...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory released a statement following the passing of Sheriff Maynard Reid, Jr., who has served as the Randolph County Sheriff since 2006.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:02 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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On Tuesday, December 29th at approximately 6:30 p.m., Washington Police arrested Marquelle Neville Boyd (age 19) of Blounts Creek for the murder of Akeem Javal Williams.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:56 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Even before she assumes control of the University of North Carolina system, former Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has become a lightening rod for attacks by faculty, students, and activists on the left
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Every year the Tax Foundation publishes the State Business Tax Climate Index, which allows taxpayers, businesses, and policy makers an easy comparison of how their states' tax systems relate. This ranking of the states is based on tax policy has been very important in North Carolina over the last...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs held a hearing to discuss legislation focused on health care and benefits for our nation's veterans. The committee looked at five bills, three of which Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) originally co-sponsored...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:34 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Lately I've been reflecting on North Carolina's celebrated history as, well, the political equivalent of a cantankerous old coot.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory has appointed Grant Whitney, Jr. of Charlotte to the State Board of Elections to fill the unexpired term of Josh Howard, who resigned effective January 1
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:21 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Solar energy is said to be renewable because it is "naturally replenished." One source defines solar power as renewable because "there is an endless supply." But the truth of the matter is that in any meaningful technological, economic, or practical sense solar is anything but renewable...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Fifteen state employees will be presented with the prestigious 'Governor's Awards for Excellence' on Tuesday. It is the highest honor a state employee may receive for dedicated service to the State and the citizens of North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 12:51 pm
By: Chris Downey
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This report is an attempt to identify the scope and cost of regulations in the state of North Carolina in a manner more comprehensive than the surveys offered by business climate indices. By these measures, North Carolina's record is mixed in terms of regulatory burden depending on the measure used.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 12:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On November 25, 2015 at approximately 10:08 pm, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report of a breaking and entering and larceny from a business on Cherry Run Road in Washington. The Sheriff's Office began an investigation and collected evidence.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 12:33 pm
By: Chris Downey
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In is in the nature of humans to try to find order and organization in all things.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 12:31 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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In the last two years, academics and scholars of public policy have identified North Carolina as a state with an overly complex criminal code that can ensnare small businesses, farmers, and individuals who unknowingly fail to comply with regulatory rules. In 2014, Professor Jeff Welty of the...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory signed a proclamation today declaring January Stalking Awareness Month in North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:57 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Last week, the NC Department of Public Instruction released financial data for the 2014-15 school year. In the table below, I included per pupil expenditure figures and (composite) grade-level math and reading proficiency percentages for students in grades 3-8.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What IS a Republican? Is it merely someone who marks an 'R' on their voter registration card? Is it someone who seeks to protect the common people from the excesses of government bureaucracy?
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina's tax code penalizes savings and investment by double taxing their returns - specifically interest, dividends, and capital gains. These biases can only be eliminated by removing savings and investment from the tax base, or by eliminating the returns to saving; for example...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hundreds of supporters of the $2 billion Connect NC bond referendum on the March 15 ballot gathered Tuesday on N.C. State University’s Centennial Campus to kick off a campaign they say is essential for a growing North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:39 am
By: McCrory Communications
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It was a protest that absolutely no one in Charlotte saw coming. A dive bar in a hip neighborhood was to be replaced with an apartment building with more retail space
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week's horrific terrorist attack in Paris seems to be causing changes in the way policymakers think about the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and, one way or another, those changes are likely to have an impact here in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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First, it was the Liberal, but not too sharp and not at all funny, women of The View, and then it was their messiah, Hussein Obama, stopping the Keystone Pipeline, and then attempting to explain that death truthfully.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The graph below compares the temperature predictions of the major climate models to actual climate change figures using satellite data, considered to be the most accurate, going back to 1979 when satellite records began. The graph, compiled by University of Alabama at Huntsville climatologists...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ms. Jeannitta Nina Luster, 51, resident of 904 East 8th St., Washington, died Fri., Jan. 01, 2016.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:18 am
By: Announcements
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Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced today that Frontier Communications Corporation has committed to adding 200 jobs over the coming five years as part of a $4.3 million expansion...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:14 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Elizabeth Holliday Hill departed this earthly plane on Saturday, January 2, 2016 in Carlsbad, CA at the home of her loving daughter Katie.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:04 am
By: Announcements
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Regulation costs already reach at least $3.1 billion annually in North Carolina and might stretch to as much as $25 billion. A new John Locke Foundation Policy Report focuses on a tool designed to "rein in" state regulatory overreach.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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