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During the difficult times of the Depression era, several North Carolina entrepreneurs pooled together their limited resources to form businesses, such as Texas Pete, that fostered the state's economic success in the twentieth century.
Published: Sunday, September 29th, 2013 @ 1:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Automobile emissions inspections have been in the news recently as the N.C. Division of Air Quality held a public hearing over eliminating inspections for newer-model cars. The hearing related to last year's passage of House Bill 585, which exempts cars up to three model years old and under...
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2013 @ 2:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public universities are facing a new economic reality, as states decide to reduce funding and expect a lot more fiscal accountability. Now, in response, schools are cutting costs, raising tuition, and sometimes both. Jenna Ashley Robinson, outreach coordinator for the Pope Center for Higher...
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2013 @ 12:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's new tax reforms help set the stage for long-term economic growth in the state. That's the assessment of the John Locke Foundation's top tax expert, who analyzes the reforms and suggests future improvements in a new Spotlight report.
Published: Friday, September 27th, 2013 @ 1:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Concern is rising among community health centers that serve nearly a half million patients in North Carolina yearly - most of them uninsured - that Obamacare may drain away their patients and doctors. Meantime, officials say, patients are antsy about how the law will affect them.
Published: Thursday, September 26th, 2013 @ 5:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although it may not seem obvious at first, there is a common denominator between two separate dramas playing out in Washington and Raleigh right now. Nationally, the top story in domestic policy is the impending implementation of the Affordable Care Act a.k.a. Obamacare.
Published: Thursday, September 26th, 2013 @ 3:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While it could be a stretch to say that politics are driving people to drink, in a number of municipalities across North Carolina, voters will be deciding issues related to alcohol.
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 9:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After the English Civil War, in 1660 King Charles II was restored to the throne, and the crown rewarded its political allies with vast tracts of land in British America. Eight tracts were bestowed to eight lords proprietors in Carolina (later divided into modern-day North and South Carolina).
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 4:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Have you ever gotten a cringe-worthy progress report or report card from your child's school? Just about every parent will have this experience at least once. If the grade isn't what you expected or wanted, do you blame the school for sending you the report card? Of course not. Like it or not...
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 3:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Campbell University expects to play a lead role in the transformation of health care delivery in North Carolina, and to aid ailing rural communities by sending them health care professionals from its new School of Osteopathic Medicine, school officials said Thursday.
Published: Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 @ 5:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Russia has witnessed massive changes over the past two decades. Not all of them have been good. Yuri Maltsev, professor of economics at Carthage College, served as a top economics adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the former Soviet Union, before Maltsev defected to the United...
Published: Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 @ 4:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Health care is likely to be the second-biggest issue in next year's midterm elections (the condition of the economy will be #1). But while North Carolina Democrats and liberal activists would like the management of the state Department of Health and Human Services to define the health care issue...
Published: Monday, September 23rd, 2013 @ 10:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just five months after releasing a report that outlined key questions surrounding new Common Core public school education standards, the John Locke Foundation has revised and expanded the report - nearly doubling the number of questions answered.
Published: Monday, September 23rd, 2013 @ 12:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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To the surprise of industry observers, the U.S. Department of Justice in August filed to lawsuit to block the pending merger of US Airways and American Airlines. Contrary to much howling in the press and from the companies, unions, and communities involved, the DOJ's action was far from...
Published: Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 @ 3:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Josiah Collins, Sr. was born near Taunton, Somersetshire, England in August 1735 as the son of David and Joan Collins.
Published: Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 @ 11:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new state audit slams a former child care provider for setting up a front company to avoid sanctions.
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2013 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the 2013 legislative session drew to a close, Gov. Pat McCrory and other Republican leaders said their main policy focus had been to improve North Carolina's lackluster economy. They pointed to several enacted bills, including tax cuts and regulatory reform, to show that they hadn't lost this...
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2013 @ 8:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina consumers could be the biggest losers after one of three insurance carriers that applied to participate in the Obamacare federal exchange announced its decision on Thursday to withdraw from the government-approved marketplace, health experts say. They cite the lack of competition...
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A lawsuit filed by four former broadcasters and communications professionals claims the Charlotte City Council broke state open government laws when it went into closed session to discuss paying for renovations at Bank of America Stadium.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 6:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Formed out of Moravian musical societies and community bands that exemplified the traditional importance of brass instruments, particularly the trombone, the Salem Brass Band served the Confederacy from the first days of the Civil War until June 1865, when members were finally released from prison.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 9:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This summer I took calls from dozens of reporters across the country. A couple of questions were repeated time and again: How could North Carolina Republicans have moved so far to the right? How have the state's politics polarized so much when the Democratic Party barely has budged from its...
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 2:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Scared" of the impact Obamacare may have on their businesses, some North Carolina employers are considering private health insurance exchanges as a way to continue providing medical coverage to employees at a lower cost than the mandated insurance under Obamacare. IBM recently used a private...
Published: Tuesday, September 17th, 2013 @ 2:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Tuesday, September 17th, 2013 @ 9:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A former North Carolina slave turned abolitionist and author, Harriet Jacobs was born in bondage in Edenton. Her father was a white farmer and her mother a mulatto house slave.
Published: Monday, September 16th, 2013 @ 5:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, September 16th, 2013 @ 3:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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FirstCarolinaCare Insurance Company is withdrawing from participation in the federal health exchange. Uninsured North Carolina consumers will have only two provider options from which to purchase policies approved by federal regulators and mandated under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare)...
Published: Sunday, September 15th, 2013 @ 10:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After visiting the first McDonald's fast-food restaurant in North Carolina, Hardee realized that a business centered on modestly priced hamburgers and french fries could generate substantial income.
Published: Sunday, September 15th, 2013 @ 10:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Frank Meyer is a name that should be familiar to every serious student of American politics and political philosophy. Alas, I fear it is not. One of the original writing talents at William F. Buckley's National Review, Frank Meyer (1909-1972) edited the "back of the book" - reviews, arts, and...
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2013 @ 6:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Named in honor of the first president of the United States, George Washington, the coastal county of Washington was established in 1799.
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2013 @ 11:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 5:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Barker-Moore House, also known simply as the Barker House, is currently home to the Edenton Historical Commission and is open to the public for tours.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 9:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Don't look now, but North Carolina's long-maligned highway system is showing signs of significant improvement.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a unanimous opinion, the state's second highest court struck down as unconstitutional a state law prohibiting registered sex offenders from accessing social media sites such as Facebook.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Among recent headlines, the student government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill deliberately cut the budget of College Republicans to prevent the group from bringing two speakers to campus, Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich and filmmaker Ann McElhinney, whom student government...
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 6:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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