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The origins of labor Day are rather dubious, born from congressional guilt of Americans shot down, by the Army and U.S. Marshalls, while exercising their first amendment right to congregate and protest during the Pullman Strike in Haymarket Square in Chicago on may 4, 1886.
Published: Monday, September 1st, 2025 @ 9:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Cooper Leads Bipartisan Letter Urging Congress to Continue Program that Helps North Carolinians Afford High-Speed Internet
Published: Friday, January 26th, 2024 @ 8:27 am
By: Governor's Office
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The Pritzker family has made headlines in recent years for their political and philanthropic activity, as they leverage the billions of dollars inherited from the Hyatt Hotel fortune to advance progressive causes.
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 11:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Personal information of 56 million voters shared
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2022 @ 5:39 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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The interstate program is the best data sharing option North Carolina has to clean its voter rolls because it is currently the only data sharing option to clean its voter rolls
Published: Thursday, May 19th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the U.S. reckons with record-breaking drug overdose deaths during the COVID-19 epidemic, Michael R. Bloomberg today announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies is making an investment to help combat the overdose crisis.
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 11:52 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Fears of a global economic slowdown, fueled in part by the coronavirus outbreak, took a $4.2 billion chunk out of North Carolina’s state pension plan.
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2020 @ 10:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina should avoid borrowing billions, even though the state’s “credit card limit,” a recent study says, is more than $11 billion over the next decade.
Published: Monday, February 10th, 2020 @ 12:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, the Trump Administration released a new tool to assist rural community leaders in building an effective local response to the crisis of addiction.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2020 @ 9:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina’s state pension plan is prepared to weather another recession, a Pew Charitable Trusts stress test says.
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 @ 12:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As famously said by former president Barak Obama, the best anti-poverty program is a job. In North Carolina, as of June 2019, there were 1.21 open jobs for every unemployed person on the job market.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 @ 1:55 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Once again, a group of influential green groups and corporations are promoting a global climate strike.
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2019 @ 11:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The economic costs of corporate tax incentives outweigh their benefits, a new study by N.C. State University researchers says.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 5:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The NC House: Hospitals are Too Important to Fail, but Taxpayers are Unimportant to Save Them Money
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 9:39 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Have you ever seen the movie "Dave"? It's a warm-hearted little comedy from 1993 about a man (Dave, played by Kevin Kline) who runs a temporary employment agency and has a side hustle of being a spot-on impersonator of the president of the United States.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2019 @ 1:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sorry Carl, but the Folwell Resolution will not happen in Beaufort County, and will not be even heard.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 12:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The "anti-Folwell" bill, HB184 made it out of the Health Committee yesterday, putting it on a course to possibly become law. It is a bill that 2 sides see very differently.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2019 @ 4:26 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Sometimes things happen slowly and then all at once, like love or bankruptcy. Sometimes they just happen suddenly, like a car accident or hitting the jackpot on a slot machine
Published: Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 @ 3:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Time Magazine’s Aug. 6 special issue focuses on the American South. One of the articles is about Georgia’s film production incentives, entitled “How Georgia Became the Hollywood of the South.”
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 @ 3:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past two weeks, government budget agencies have delivered two key reports to North Carolina taxpayers. One should infuriate them. The other should please them
Published: Monday, April 23rd, 2018 @ 12:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina state government's reserves are in the best condition they've seen this century
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2018 @ 3:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is the only state meeting all of the Pew Charitable Trusts best or good practices in taking care of its "rainy day" reserves
Published: Saturday, December 23rd, 2017 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today that North Carolina will join the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative, focused on investing taxpayer dollars wisely in programs and policies that are proven to work
Published: Monday, December 18th, 2017 @ 2:34 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Last month, the N.C. Dept. Commerce released the county tier designations for 2018
Published: Friday, December 15th, 2017 @ 1:50 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Legislators agreed this week to use millions of dollars from North Carolina's "rainy day" reserves. Some of them are also pursuing clearer rules for using those reserves in the future
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2016 @ 9:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The previous newsletter discussed in brief how the renewable energy lobby has, over decades, been promising politicians and voters some things they have yet to achieve. Those promises are that...
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 2:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A major problem is facing state employee pension plans. While many private corporations cut back pension programs due to limited funding or decreasing contributions, pension systems for government employees rarely change.
Published: Monday, August 24th, 2015 @ 12:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I usually try not to call attention to a lot of the stupidity that oozes through the drive-by media. (There's so frickin' much of it.)
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 9:15 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The physical resemblance is uncanny, but it's not the only thing Jay Faison and Tom Steyer have in common. They both are wealthy political environmental activists who have decided they will spend their millions/billions to support the politics of environmentalism and the agenda of Big Solar - one...
Published: Monday, July 20th, 2015 @ 3:48 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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There's a corner in my house that is highly attractive to cats. In a few short years, this place has gone from somewhere no cat would ever be seen to an area heavily visited by kitties. One might describe this spot as an Emerging Leader in Cat Corners.
Published: Wednesday, January 28th, 2015 @ 7:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There's a corner in my house that is highly attractive to cats. In a few short years, this place has gone from somewhere no cat would ever be seen to an area heavily visited by kitties. One might describe this spot as an Emerging Leader in Cat Corners.
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 10:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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However, differences in technology and operating procedures across the state and nation continue to create a host of problems, from a delay in 911 services to no help arriving at all in crisis situations. Ongoing research by faculty members James Holloway, Elaine Seeman and Jim Kleckley in the East
Published: Thursday, November 14th, 2013 @ 12:23 pm
By: ECU News Services
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