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Concerned Taxpayer said:
( November 23rd, 2021 @ 7:23 am )
What a spendthrift Jim Perry is. The money to welfare type organizations raises eyebrows, but the big one is continuing to pour lots of money into the biggest boondoggle in state history, the "Global Transpark" to the tune of $16 million of taxpayer money. This failure goes all the way back to the early 1990s when a business professor at NC State University convinced the governor that the fad of "just in time manufacturing" was about to really take off in the business world, and that building a facility geared to that concept would give NC a leg up in attracting industry. They built the Global Transpark but nobody came. The fad of just in time manufacturing did not take off as the professor had thought. The Transpark got labeled appropriately as the "Transpork" because the state kept beating this dead horse, continuing to put money into it. They did get a couple of aircraft repair type businesses, smallish operations that did not justify all the expenditures, but they kept limping along. The Transpark is an example of government programs that never seem to die even though they should have been put out of their misery long ago. The Global Transpark was an idea that failed decades ago but spendthrift Senator Jim Perry is boasting about wasting another $16 million there.
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More pork. Meanwhile Perry was trying to get the Obamacare Medicaid expansion accepted, something that Republican voters do NOT want. Fortunately conservatives in the House blocked that in spite of Perry trying to offer them pork to go along. Perry is a real porker.
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(RALEIGH) Today Governor Josh Stein announced the following judicial appointment:
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 @ 10:30 pm
By: Governor's Office
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President Donald J. Trump slammed failed Governor Roy Cooper's soft-on-crime agenda that led to the tragic murder of Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, by a career criminal in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 @ 2:43 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Soft-on-crime Democrat Roy Cooper stayed silent this weekend after police released the footage of a repeat offender brutally murdering an innocent passenger on the Charlotte Light Rail.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 @ 10:01 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Today Governor Josh Stein announced appointments to boards and commissions.
Published: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 @ 12:32 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Today Governor Josh Stein signed Executive Order 23, establishing the North Carolina Energy Policy Task Force to strengthen the state’s electricity infrastructure and energy affordability as demand increases.
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2025 @ 7:26 am
By: Governor's Office
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I am honored to announce my candidacy for City Council.
Published: Sunday, August 10th, 2025 @ 6:50 pm
By: Nick Fritz
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The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Coastal Management announced nearly $6 million in Resilient Coastal Communities Program (RCCP) grants, with nearly $1.2 million of that going to support communities in District 3.
Published: Monday, July 28th, 2025 @ 6:05 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman Tim Scott released the following statement commenting on President Trump's "complete and total endorsement" of Michael Whatley for the North Carolina U.S. Senate race in a Truth Social post earlier this evening:
Published: Sunday, July 27th, 2025 @ 8:17 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Published: Friday, July 25th, 2025 @ 8:23 am
By: Governor's Office
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We had 2 candidates file today.
Published: Thursday, July 17th, 2025 @ 2:08 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Gary Carlton moved out of his school district, apparently on June 13.
Published: Saturday, July 12th, 2025 @ 8:07 am
By: Hood Richardson
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(RALEIGH) Today Governor Stein signed seven bills and vetoed three bills.
Published: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 10:41 pm
By: Governor's Office
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(RALEIGH) Governor Josh Stein announced today that TMG & Haartz Solutions LLC, a new joint venture to supply synthetic leather materials for automotive interiors, will create 125 jobs over the next five years in Rutherford County.
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 @ 4:01 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Published: Sunday, June 22nd, 2025 @ 1:36 am
By: Governor's Office
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Published: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 @ 3:27 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Snowden: last night at Southside the announcement was made that the vote on closing Snowden will be at the school board regular meeting on Tuesday June 3 at 5:30 PM.
Published: Monday, June 2nd, 2025 @ 3:09 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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“Accurate voter registration rolls are critical to ensure that elections in North Carolina are conducted fairly, accurately, and without fraud.”
Published: Sunday, June 1st, 2025 @ 9:38 am
By: Daily Wire
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