For a guy claiming to be against “tax giveaways” to corporations, Gov. Roy Cooper sure seems to be fond of doling out taxpayer dollars to corporations.
Published: Monday, January 27th, 2020 @ 10:44 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Pactiv Corporation to add 25 jobs in Guilford County
Published: Friday, January 24th, 2020 @ 6:35 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Telephonics Corporation, a communication system company, will create 75 jobs as it expands its operations in Pasquotank County, Governor Roy Cooper announced today. The company will invest $5.5 million in a new facility, located in Elizabeth City.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 11:35 am
By: Governor's Office
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Parexel International Corporation, one of the world’s leading contract research and services companies serving the biopharmaceuticals industry, will open a second U.S. headquarters in the State of North Carolina
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 8:57 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Pacon Manufacturing Corporation, a contract manufacturer, has selected Brunswick County for its new plant, creating 299 new jobs and investing $37.6 million, Governor Roy Cooper announced today.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2019 @ 12:36 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper today visited Rempac Foam Corporation’s manufacturing facility in Lumberton, where he announced a grant to help protect the business and its jobs from future floods and discussed ongoing efforts to rebuild from Hurricane Florence.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2019 @ 5:15 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Design Foundry, LLC, will open a new furniture manufacturing facility in Catawba County, creating 202 new jobs over five years, Governor Roy Cooper announced today.
Published: Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 @ 1:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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RiceWrap Foods Corporation, a food manufacturer with a unique, patent-pending method of producing and delivering rice for sushi, will create 305 new jobs in Granville County, Governor Roy Cooper announced today
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2018 @ 2:41 am
By: Governor's Office
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He may be a flawed individual, but he is the RIGHT kind of individual for government. He is an unashamed, unapologetic, and undetered interposer against federal tyranny.
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2018 @ 3:29 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Earlier this year Governor Cooper toured Linamar Corporation, a precision machining and assembly company located outside Asheville, North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 @ 3:44 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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For the first twenty years of my career I was a radio broadcaster in Greenville, Wilson, Elizabeth City, Fuquay-Varina, and later Raleigh and Durham
Published: Thursday, November 23rd, 2017 @ 12:30 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Albemarle Corporation, a global specialty chemicals company, will add 200 jobs in North Carolina, Governor Cooper announced today
Published: Monday, August 14th, 2017 @ 8:46 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today that Clearwater Paper Corporation will launch a major expansion at its facility in Cleveland County, creating 180 jobs over the next two years.
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2017 @ 1:25 am
By: Russell Allen
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Governor Pat McCrory, N.C. Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced today that Yokohama Tire Corporation will establish a Technical Development Center in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, September 1st, 2016 @ 11:33 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory joined officials from the N.C. Transportation Department and CSX Corporation today at the Port of Wilmington to announce the debut of the new Queen City Express, an intermodal rail service between the Port of Wilmington and CSX's intermodal terminal in Charlotte
Published: Monday, July 25th, 2016 @ 5:38 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory was at Dixon Elementary School this morning to congratulate teachers on receiving grants as part of the Bright Ideas program of the Jones-Onslow Electric Membership Corporation (EMC), one of North Carolina's electric cooperatives.
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 11:24 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced today that Frontier Communications Corporation has committed to adding 200 jobs over the coming five years as part of a $4.3 million expansion...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:14 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced today that Albemarle Corporation will move its corporate headquarters to Charlotte
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 7:36 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Ideal Fastener Corporation will be expanding its facility in Granville County.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 4:29 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Governor Pat McCrory signed Senate Bill – SB 790, into law at his office in the State Capitol on Monday afternoon, June 30, 2014.
Published: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014 @ 2:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Skeptics of the Medicaid reform plan announced in February by the McCrory administration are wary of using a relatively untested framework of what are known as accountable care organizations to administer and deliver Medicaid services.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Kearfott Corporation is planning to expand its North Carolina manufacturing operations in Buncombe County.
Published: Wednesday, March 5th, 2014 @ 12:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today Standard Medical Acceptance (SMA) Corporation will locate its offices in Chowan County.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2014 @ 6:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (PotashCorp) announced today that it is taking the difficult but necessary step to reduce its workforce in Canada, the United States and Trinidad by approximately 18 percent from current levels.
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2013 @ 11:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In an effort to contain costs, and remain economically viable, in the fluid phosphate ore market that is worldwide and truly in a state of economic flux, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan is giving the 'pink slip' to about 1000 employees spread across their entire corporate footprint.
Published: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 @ 1:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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While the Rev. William Barber, head of the NCNAACP, likes to call opponents extremists and rant about the immorality of legislative actions, he never mentions one important detail concerning his personal interest.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013 @ 5:51 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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S 99/H 440: Examples of bad bills that would give special benefits to a select group of corporationsIn Alice In Wonderland Humpty Dumpty said to Alice: "'When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2013 @ 1:25 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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This week's Bad Bill of the Week is HB 603. Sponsored by Representatives Deborah Ross (D-Wake), Deb McManus (D-Chatham), Valerie Foushee (D-Orange), and Paul Tine (D-Beaufort), the The Equal Pay Act is a mess.
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2013 @ 11:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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This week's Bad Bill of the Week is another repeat offender. SB 99, the North Carolina Benefit Corporation Act, is the same piece of legislation dubbed a "Bad Bill" by Civitas in 2011.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 @ 9:24 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The other day I was reading the monthly magazine produced by my electric co-op (Carolina Country July, 2012). In it there was an interesting opinion piece written by Mr. Michael Burnette, Senior VP and COO for power supply at North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation.
Published: Sunday, July 15th, 2012 @ 10:00 am
By: Jim Bispo
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PCS Phosphate Company, Inc. (PotashCorp - Aurora) announced today that it is reducing staffing levels at its phosphate facility by approximately 150 full-time positions, or about 15 percent of its current workforce.
Published: Monday, May 21st, 2012 @ 9:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A wave of similar reactions rippled through the city last week as news of the proposal spread. Within days a neighborhood-driven opposition movement was growing, fed in part by the secretive nature of port and company officials in their first steps at outreach.
Published: Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 @ 2:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Since July 2003, Spruill has been a steadying force in the county, amidst equally constant disturbances.
Published: Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 @ 1:08 pm
By: BCN
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