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A University of North Carolina tennis player's federal class-action lawsuit against the NCAA could target more than 17,000 potential plaintiffs, according to a court document filed Monday.
Published: Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 @ 12:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A federal judge ruled on Monday that Google has a monopoly over general search engine services, siding with the Justice Department and more than two dozen states that sued the tech company, alleging antitrust violations.
Published: Wednesday, August 14th, 2024 @ 1:28 am
By: Daily Wire
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Partially redacted portions of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust lawsuit against Amazon allege the company used an internal algorithmic pricing tool described as an “unfair method of competition” to test how much it could raise prices so competitors would follow.
Published: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 6:50 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina Hospitals Charge Families Huge Price Markups for Common Shoppable Services, Hide Prices from Patients
Published: Tuesday, October 10th, 2023 @ 11:44 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 state attorneys general sued Amazon on Tuesday for allegedly using “interlocking and anticompetitive and unfair” strategies to maintain its monopolistic power over current and future rivals.
Published: Saturday, October 7th, 2023 @ 2:52 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Hold onto your wallets, the Attorney General has failed the patients and taxpayers of North Carolina yet again. There is widespread evidence that mergers make hospital care less affordable and less safe.
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 11:29 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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California filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Wednesday, claiming that the company limits price competition through its practices.
Published: Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 @ 5:38 pm
By: Daily Wire
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President Joe Biden revealed on Saturday that the United States will “not walk away” from the Middle East.
Published: Thursday, July 28th, 2022 @ 8:36 pm
By: Daily Wire
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When we consider the importance of our First Amendment guaranteed Freedom of Speech, to speak truths as we know them, think as we see fit, and politically assert ourselves as we are called to do so, we all must be aware that this freedom could be easily be lost.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 2:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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At the November, 2020 General Meeting, The Beaufort County Commissioners will be asked to support a well defined resolution, written by Commissioner Stan Deatherage, to support and defend the First Amendment, in particular the segment that guarantees "Freedom of Speech" and a "Free Press."
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 1:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Making oil more expensive
Published: Sunday, November 28th, 2021 @ 4:18 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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My research brief today answers nine questions about the remarkably “unremarkable” Certificate of Need (CON) law case just decided in the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Sunday, August 1st, 2021 @ 11:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, July 8, 2021
Published: Saturday, July 24th, 2021 @ 5:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina doesn’t just have a health care gap. Large fissures riddle the system.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2019 @ 12:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Residents in Wilson, Salisbury, Mooresville, Davidson, and Morganton were being hit with higher taxes and even electricity and water rates as their cities were bleeding money. Why?
Published: Thursday, April 25th, 2019 @ 11:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The President just finished rolling out new actions and proposals to drive down prescription drug prices for all Americans. The current situation is unacceptable, and fixing high drug prices is a top priority for the President.
Published: Monday, May 14th, 2018 @ 8:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is strange, isn't it, that a state that may be indirectly responsible for touching off the de-licensing revolution among the states still hasn't joined that revolution
Published: Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 @ 12:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For half a century, making any reform to a state's occupational licensing system has been nigh on impossible
Published: Thursday, May 25th, 2017 @ 2:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week I had the honor of speaking in favor of occupational licensing reform before a legislative oversight committee (you can view my presentation here)...
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 5:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee recently, I was asked by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) if, with respect to higher education, I would favor eliminating the U.S. Department of Education.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 3:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The search for the next University of North Carolina system president has finally concluded.
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2015 @ 8:46 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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"I wish my job did not exist," wrote Nick Cooper, an administrative law attorney for Norwich University (Vermont), in an April 29 Pope Center article.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 @ 10:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Today, the Civitas Institute joins the Cato Institute in asking the United States Supreme Court to clarify its role in protecting Americans from occupational licensure abuse. In a joint amicus brief, attorneys from Civitas and Cato ask the Court to grant certiorari in Vong v. Aune - a case with...
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 8:14 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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My colleague Jon Sanders has already commented on last week's Supreme Court decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission. As Jon suggests, this is a good result in many ways — the bad guys lost, and the good guys will eventually benefit. It is...
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week the Federal Communications Commission moved to set aside North Carolina law in favor of the City of Wilson's Greenlight broadband service. My Spotlight this week explains why this was a bad decision.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2015 @ 4:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is one of the more aggressive states in the nation in licensing occupations. This is a significant impediment to freedom in a state that once boasted, and ought to be able to again, of being "First in Freedom."
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2015 @ 1:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is one of the more aggressive states in the nation in licensing occupations. This is a significant impediment to freedom in a state that once boasted, and ought to be able to again, of being "First in Freedom."
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 5:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Supreme Court has taken up a North Carolina case that could have far-reaching impacts on state licensure. Given that occupational licensing is a modern-day guild system making it harder for people to find work – or find workers – that would be an effect greatly to be wished.
Published: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014 @ 1:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory used the deadline for filing income tax returns to tout the historic tax reform package that he signed into law last year.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 8:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Arthur Smith of Durham hopes Senate Bill 655, a measure placing tighter restrictions on dental service organizations, doesn't become law.
Published: Saturday, June 9th, 2012 @ 5:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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