The court battle over the Voter Information Verification Act (VIVA), the landmark election reform legislation signed into law in 2013, will begin again in a few weeks. U.S. Judge Thomas D. Schroeder, from the United States District Court, Middle District of North Carolina, will begin to hear...
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 11:17 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The North Carolina Senate passed a balanced $21.47 billion state budget on Thursday, June 18, 2015.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 11:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's rate-filing season for health insurance companies, and this week marked the deadline for carriers to disclose and explain any proposed rate increases of ten percent or more for 2016 Obamacare plans sold on the individual market. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina made the cut.
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2015 @ 8:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While Duke Energy is passing higher costs to ratepayers because state law forces it to purchase renewable energy, the utility also claimed a whopping $62.8 million in tax write-offs in 2014 for its own investments in green power projects.
Published: Thursday, June 11th, 2015 @ 3:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory, N.C. Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla III and the Economic Development Partnership of N.C. announced today that BlueScope Buildings North America will be expanding its facility in Scotland County and creating 115 new jobs over the next three years. The company plans to...
Published: Friday, June 5th, 2015 @ 12:53 am
By: Chris Downey
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement after Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) announced that its customers covered under the President’s Affordable Care Act will face an average 25.7 percent premium rate increase next year.
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015 @ 10:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The news that North Carolina's state General Fund budget revenue is now predicted to come in $400 million above original estimates caused the Left to go into full spin mode. For months, liberal progressives were fretting about the end of Western Civilization as we know it due to earlier...
Published: Saturday, May 9th, 2015 @ 3:20 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory congratulated Duke University's Men’s Basketball team and Coach Mike Krzyzewski after the Blue Devils won the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.
Published: Tuesday, April 7th, 2015 @ 2:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and First Lady Ann McCrory will light both the Executive Mansion and the Western Residence in Asheville in blue this evening after sunset to commemorate World Autism Awareness Day.
Published: Friday, April 3rd, 2015 @ 4:16 am
By: Chris Downey
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments...
Published: Friday, March 27th, 2015 @ 6:52 am
By: Chris Downey
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In the summer of 1918, five large German submarines (U-boats) crossed the Atlantic and operated against the lightly protected shipping off the North American coast.
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2015 @ 4:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced he is an original co-sponsor of the Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act of 2015, which was introduced today by Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2015 @ 3:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It can be very difficult to grasp or visualize the vastness of the network of left-wing groups in North Carolina. But one way to start is with the key group on the left, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation - and the family that dominates it.
Published: Monday, March 2nd, 2015 @ 5:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today's pop music is predicated upon the lowest common denominator of the human experiment. There is little that is uplifting, no building upon the art of the past, just make money, and lots of it, paid by the dimmest bulbs of all time.
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 4:12 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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While Obamacare continues to flood the health care sector with more taxes and mandates, it's simultaneously driving insurers and health care providers to increase price transparency. Because the law's pricey regulations are either driving employers to push more benefit cost sharing onto employees...
Published: Monday, February 16th, 2015 @ 4:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One Sunday afternoon in December, I took a short trip to Staunton, Virginia and found the trip to this very historic southern city located in the southern sector of the Shenandoah Valley.
Published: Saturday, December 13th, 2014 @ 1:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This is the time of the year when Autumn unfurls its brilliant colors. There is a chill in the air, and often that change of seasons can be breathtaking. be
Published: Thursday, December 11th, 2014 @ 8:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Shenandoah National Park, with the 105 mile long Skyline Drive bisecting it from southwest to northeast along its spine, is a rugged natural park running from Front Royal to the North to Rockfish Gap to the South.
Published: Sunday, December 7th, 2014 @ 6:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Shenandoah Valley exists as a long, fertile, and largely agrarian, stretch of land framed by the Potomac River to the north and the James River to the south, as well as being buttressed by the Blue Ridge Mountains to the East and the Appalachian Ridge and Valley ranges to the west.
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 6:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) thanked U.S. administration officials for heeding his call to fight for U.S. fishermen and secure an increase in quota for western Atlantic bluefin tuna.
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 10:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and First Lady Ann McCrory invite you to celebrate the joy of the Christmas season in the Blue Ridge Mountains for the annual Holiday Open House at the Governor's Western Residence.
Published: Thursday, November 27th, 2014 @ 3:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This Halloween, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) customers were spooked by skyrocketing premiums when opening their 2015 rate notification letters for their non-group health plans. While it turns out that the mailings provided incorrect information for an estimated 38,000...
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) called on the Obama administration to stand up for U.S. fishermen and fight for an increase in quota for western Atlantic bluefin tuna.
Published: Friday, October 31st, 2014 @ 10:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It shouldn't have come as a surprise in 2013 that North Carolina Democrats and self-styled progressives reacted with fury when Republicans took over the General Assembly and the governor's office.
Published: Tuesday, April 29th, 2014 @ 12:51 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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By the looks of it, the individual mandate is almost devoid of life. This tax was once viewed as the centerpiece of the federal health law. Without this critical element of government coercion, Obamacare could not work to its full capacity.
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 10:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hartford, along with numerous other musicians and historians, believed that Earl Scruggs was the true reason behind bluegrass music and the banjo's popularity and resonance.
Published: Friday, December 27th, 2013 @ 5:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We hear a lot about ObamaCare / KayCare from political activists, politicians, hacks extraordinaire.
Published: Monday, December 23rd, 2013 @ 11:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A rhetorical battle over whether young adults should sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act reached the White House last week, when President Obama called a conservative group's efforts to inform so-called millennials about alternatives to the health care law "bizarre."
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2013 @ 12:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare's health insurance exchanges offer four "metallic" levels of plans: bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. Bronze plans cover 60 percent of benefits, meaning consumers will be responsible for higher out-of-pocket expenses such as co-pays, co-insurance, and deductibles. Meanwhile, platinum...
Published: Monday, December 9th, 2013 @ 7:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal health care law known as Obamacare creates more problems for North Carolinians than just the faulty website that has generated recent headlines. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report documents key Obamacare flaws and offers alternatives for addressing health care needs.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We took a look at Thom Tillis’s money in a previous post. Now, let’s look at the financial doings of Charlotte pastor-turned-candidate Mark Harris.
Published: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 @ 7:10 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The federal health care law known as Obamacare creates more problems for North Carolinians than just the faulty website that has generated recent headlines.
Published: Saturday, November 30th, 2013 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a far cry from those heady days in 2008 and 2009 when a certain former state senator from Greensboro aspiring to be a US senator was telling us that we were going to eat every bit of our ObamaCare, and we were going to like it.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2013 @ 6:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Though a League of Women Voters presentation on the Affordable Care Act on Monday sounded more like talking points from the Obama administration than a current assessment of the national healthcare law's impacts and flaws, some uninsured people in attendance said the session was informative.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 7:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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