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North Carolina’s Republican legislative leadership never met a tax they didn’t want to cut. Since taking control of state government in 2011, they have cut corporate tax rates from 6.9 percent to the current 2.0 percent.
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2025 @ 6:07 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Happy Anniversary America !! This year, 2011, celebrates 218 years since the British signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783, formally abandoning any claims to the United States.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Government retirees object to a proposed "writ of prohibition" from the N.C. Supreme Court that would stop them from pursuing a class-action lawsuit. The retirees want the state to restore premium-free health benefits they enjoyed before a change in state law in 2011.
Published: Saturday, September 16th, 2023 @ 3:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Darryl Howard, imprisoned for 21 years for two murders he didn't commit, can continue to pursue a lawsuit against two Durham police officers. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Howard can move forward with a complaint based on law enforcement work that took place in 2011.
Published: Monday, July 17th, 2023 @ 5:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Longtime college basketball commentator Billy Packer died Thursday night at age 82. While most people remember Packer for his role in the sports world, Carolina Journal readers might remember his battle with state environmental regulators, documented by executive editor Don Carrington in May 2011.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I never really knew of Kathy Mattea until this last Saturday night, December 21, 2011, when I saw her perform on PBS's "Song of the Mountains."
Published: Thursday, December 15th, 2022 @ 6:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On this anniversary of 9/11, we look back and remember the horrific events of that day and the lives taken too soon.
Published: Sunday, September 11th, 2022 @ 2:19 am
By: Diane Rufino
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A CIA drone strike in Afghanistan was successful in killing Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who has led the Islamic terrorist group ever since U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, according to reports.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2022 @ 8:11 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Friday, July 22nd, 2022 @ 7:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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So you want the skinny on the state budget and K-12 education? Here’s a quick take:. The budget proposes. $11.2 billion for K-12 public education, an increase of $352 million over last year and the twelfth consecutive budget increase since 2011.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 7:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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John Tien previously served in the Obama Administration as the National Security Council Senior Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2009-2011.
Published: Wednesday, April 14th, 2021 @ 6:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This memorandum reaffirms and supplements the principles established in the Presidential Memorandum of December 6, 2011
Published: Saturday, February 6th, 2021 @ 4:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Judicial Watch today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit adopted the argument put forth by Judicial Watch and Allied Educational Foundation (AEF) in their amici curiae brief when it upheld Alabama’s 2011 Photo Voter Identification Law.
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2020 @ 1:21 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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On July 24, 2011, by Executive Order 13581, the President declared a national emergency with respect to transnational criminal organizations pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2020 @ 9:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On February 25, 2011, by Executive Order 13566, the President declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706)
Published: Friday, February 21st, 2020 @ 1:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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U.S. Rep Mark Meadows, an 11th District Republican, has held his seat since 2011, and he chaired the conservative House Freedom Caucus.
Published: Tuesday, December 24th, 2019 @ 8:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A newly released affidavit provides significant new details about an unsolved 2011 murder connected to Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2019 @ 9:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump made additional disaster assistance available to the Santa Clara Pueblo by authorizing an increase in the level of Federal funding for Public Assistance
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 @ 7:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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American workers under 35 report being happier with their paychecks than people over 55 for the first time since at least 2011, according to a new report from the Conference Board, a business-research organization that polls U.S. employees about workplace satisfaction.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2019 @ 3:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In 2011, Thom Tillis, Phil Berger, and the Republican leadership in the N.C. General Assembly removed the 100-school school cap included in the 1996 law that authorized the creation of charter schools, which are tuition-free public schools that have more freedom than district-run public schools.
Published: Friday, June 7th, 2019 @ 9:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week the Senate passed a budget that maintains the responsible budget growth that has defined Republican fiscal policies since 2011 and prioritizes tax relief, state employees who haven't received equitable treatment in previous years, and health care reform.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 5:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A Mecklenburg County grand jury on Monday indicted former state Rep. Rodney Moore of Charlotte on nine felony charges in connection with the filing of false campaign finance disclosure reports from 2011 to 2015.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 @ 5:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This weekend, Media Matters released a compendium of old Tucker Carlson quotes from the period 2006 to 2011 - a period during which Carlson routinely called into the shock-jock show Bubba The Love Sponge.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 @ 1:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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Starting in 2011, North Carolina lawmakers have implemented transformational changes resulting in a strong and growing economy
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2018 @ 4:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With all the recent activity regarding immigration we decided to repeat the column we wrote following a visit to Ellis Island, New York in 2011. It is relevant today
Published: Sunday, June 17th, 2018 @ 1:09 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Since 2011, the Republican-led General Assembly has restrained the growth of government, brought spending in line with revenue, paid down debt, put more money in savings than ever, and restored voter approval for new debt
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 @ 1:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Charter schools have flourished in North Carolina since 2011, when the General Assembly removed the statewide cap of 100. Along with the rest of the country, though, that growth recently has started to slow
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2018 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since I and other Republicans gained control of the General Assembly in 2011, the Assembly has championed the philosophy of cutting taxes - thus a lower sales tax rate, personal income tax rate and corporate tax rate on North Carolina families and businesses, while raising the standard deduction for
Published: Thursday, February 1st, 2018 @ 3:07 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Since National School Choice Week began in 2011, North Carolina has become a leader in expanding educational opportunities
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2018 @ 12:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since 2011, the Republican-led General Assembly has enacted transformational reforms
Published: Friday, October 27th, 2017 @ 11:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2011, Gary Salamido joined the North Carolina Chamber, a nonpartisan business advocacy organization, as vice president of governmental affairs
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2017 @ 9:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I published the bit of Foolishness below to my Wildly Popular (Or is It?) Foolishness...Or Is It? Blog Site (forii.blogspot.com) in October 2011. If it was Funny back then, it is still Funny today because Silliness is Never Outdated.
Published: Monday, June 26th, 2017 @ 8:47 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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This morning the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that North Carolina's 2011 congressional district maps were illegal. NCGOP Chairman Robin Hayes responded below
Published: Monday, May 22nd, 2017 @ 8:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new audit shows that a physician contracted by the state Department of Public Safety to provide services to five prisons over-billed taxpayers by more than half a million dollars between 2011 and 2014
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2016 @ 5:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Which North Carolina political party has increased the education budget by more than $1.1 billion since 2011? Answer: the Republicans.
Published: Friday, November 25th, 2016 @ 2:54 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Municipal broadband supporters are gearing up to change a law passed in 2011 that restricts how cities and towns in North Carolina can provide cable and internet services, even though the law recently was upheld by a federal appeals court
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 @ 12:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Spindale Town Councilman Ben Edwards said he was agitated when he learned House Majority Leader Mike Hager was running unopposed in House District 112, which the Republican had represented since 2011
Published: Thursday, October 27th, 2016 @ 1:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The recently released American arms dealer Marc Turi said that the Obama administration tried and failed to make him the scapegoat for a 2011 covert weapons program to arm Islamic rebels in Libya that created chaos and death.
Published: Sunday, October 16th, 2016 @ 3:24 am
By: Jim Kouri
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A known international weapons dealer - who had threatened the Obama administration that he would testify about information regarding then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's arming of Islamist "freedom-fighters" in Syria after having the CIA collect them in 2011-12 in Libya - is released by US-AG.
Published: Saturday, October 8th, 2016 @ 3:04 am
By: Jim Kouri
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