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The bank with the most closures was PNC Bank
Published: Sunday, December 10th, 2023 @ 11:00 pm
By: Daily Wire
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At August’s Council of State meeting, North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall said her department faced “a crisis” over inadequate funding for agency staff.
Published: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 4:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Famed billionaire financier Thomas H. Lee, who committed suicide last month, listed just $25 million worth of his assets in his will.
Published: Thursday, April 13th, 2023 @ 2:10 am
By: Daily Wire
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Famed billionaire financier Thomas H. Lee was found dead in his office bathroom on Thursday with a single gunshot wound to his head.
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 11:31 pm
By: Daily Wire
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As reported last week by the North Carolina Department of Commerce, North Carolina unemployment increased for the first time since the pandemic-induced economic downturn.
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2022 @ 1:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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You've all seen the President's statement we issued this morning on the House passing his Build Back Better Agenda for the middle class, which came just three weeks after the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal also passed.
Published: Saturday, November 20th, 2021 @ 7:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Months now into the COVID–19 quarantine, we’re still probably some time away from a new normal, however that looks.
Published: Sunday, May 17th, 2020 @ 10:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Department of Transportation overspent its budget by $742 million last year, a new state audit report shows.
Published: Thursday, May 7th, 2020 @ 4:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I have written several articles over the past few years addressing the financial viability of the Vidant Health System.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 1:01 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Tomorrow morning (Tuesday), legislators in the House Health Committee will vote on HB184 - a bad bill that will cost taxpayers and State Health Plan members more than $1 million per day if it's enacted.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 @ 8:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Possible GenX contamination in municipal water supplies is a reason cash-strapped municipalities have discussed merging public works systems with larger cities and counties
Published: Monday, November 26th, 2018 @ 2:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell says the State Health Plan is paying UNC Health Care too much for member services and treatments
Published: Monday, September 10th, 2018 @ 10:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislation that could recommend a shift in the state Retiree Health Benefit Fund from a defined-benefit to defined-contribution model passed the House on Thursday by a 114-0 vote and heads to the Senate
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2017 @ 2:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the stock market gyrates and talk of a new recession begins, many universities have reason to worry
Published: Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 @ 9:00 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Doctors who deal with Medicaid patients on a day-to-day basis could offer N.C. policymakers plenty of good ideas for cutting costs while maintaining or improving care.
Published: Wednesday, February 4th, 2015 @ 1:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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But turning the ship of higher education around is a herculean task (we at the Pope Center are engaged in the same enterprise-ACTA's president, Anne Neal, serves on our academic advisory council-so we know). Furthermore, the context of the university is changing in unpredictable ways.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 2:57 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When legislators and officials at the University of North Carolina consider costs, they prefer to focus on minor operational functions — such as heating bills. But that merely nibbles around the edges.
Published: Sunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When legislators and officials of the University of North Carolina and legislators consider costs, they prefer to focus on minor operational functions - such as heating bills. But that is mere nibbling around the edges.
Published: Thursday, September 4th, 2014 @ 9:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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U.S. Rep. Walter Jones says re-electing him to his seat in the 3rd Congressional District is vital to North Carolina's military economy because he would be the second-most-senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. Jones points with pride to being named by The Hill newspaper as one...
Published: Monday, May 5th, 2014 @ 10:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public universities are facing a new economic reality, as states decide to reduce funding and expect a lot more fiscal accountability. Now, in response, schools are cutting costs, raising tuition, and sometimes both. Jenna Ashley Robinson, outreach coordinator for the Pope Center for Higher...
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2013 @ 12:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We have a "daily morning paper" that is delivered (sometimes as early as 9 a.m.) every day except Monday. I rather doubt that the late delivery can be blamed on the carrier.
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2013 @ 11:03 am
By: Jim Bispo
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A Tea Party-aligned Missouri congresswoman and the new North Carolina Department of Transportation secretary are the latest Republicans to get knee-capped by the mainstream media -- courtesy of McClatchy Newspapers.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2013 @ 5:08 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Rep. Harold Brubaker, the first and only Republican House speaker of the 20th century and most recently the chamber's senior budget-writer, announced Thursday he's retiring from the Legislature.
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 2:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Why should we rush into a decision?
Published: Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 @ 2:27 am
By: Hood Richardson
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