What takes an internet publication form a local communication portal - just so one might cry out a few salient ideals - to that community's dominant player, to a regional juggernaut?
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2015 @ 6:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A study just released in Nature Geoscience comes to the following conclusion, as stated in the article's abstract...
Published: Wednesday, August 5th, 2015 @ 9:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two of the co-founders of Cary-based software company SAS Institute Inc. - James H. Goodnight and John P. Sall - appear to have collected tax credits totaling more than $3 million from the state's renewable energy program even as their company is pushing state political leaders to maintain tax subsi
Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 @ 10:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory will join leaders from Iberdrola Renewables and Amazon tomorrow to break ground on North Carolina’s first commercial-scale wind energy facility, Amazon Wind Farm U.S. East.
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 @ 11:10 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Internet giant Google collected $262 million in incentives when it located a data center in North Carolina, and now is urging the General Assembly to continue offering hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to renewable energy investors.
Published: Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Late last week the North Carolina House passed its FY 2015-17 budget proposal. The spending plan would appropriate $22.16 billion in the coming year, an increase of 6.3 percent over the amount of projected actual spending in the current budget year.
Published: Sunday, June 7th, 2015 @ 12:42 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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AFP-NC’s Donald Bryson has labeled the House’s action on the budget as “reverse Robin Hood.”-
Published: Sunday, May 24th, 2015 @ 8:48 am
By: Brant Clifton
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When Gov. Mike Easley announced in May 2008 that Wichita, Kan.-based Spirit AeroSystems would open an aircraft component manufacturing plant at the Global TransPark in Kinston, he said the company would create 1,031 jobs within six years, but as of December 2014 the company employed only 375 people.
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2015 @ 4:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We and many other grassroots entities - have been howlin' mad about Gov. Pat's $40 million corporate welfare giveaway.
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 10:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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This kind of thing happens a lot at the local level. Your county commissioners will claim they are holding the line on the property tax rate.
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 11:04 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Gov. Pat McCrory yesterday released his budget proposal for the next biennium. In odd-numbered years like this one, the legislature passes a two-year budget plan, and the following year will make adjustments to the second year of the plan.
Published: Saturday, March 14th, 2015 @ 8:17 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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My budget incorporates initiatives from the North Carolina Government Efficiency and Reform program (NC GEAR) that will save more than $14 million in year one and more than $57 million in year two of the biennium, with a savings over ten years conservatively estimated at more than $615 million in...
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2015 @ 3:43 am
By: Chris Downey
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It seems the folks on Jones Street have kicked off one heck of an orgy - apparently in honor of the box office success of '50 Shades of Grey.'
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 2:03 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Legislators are spinning us that a lot of road work needs to be done statewide, but there just isn't enough money out there to do it.
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 2:45 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Problems with Workers Compensation: Workers compensation claims have cost the taxpayers $896 million dollars during the past six years...
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 7:56 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The details have been scrubbed from The Internet, but — thanks to resources like The Wayback Machine — nothing is ever truly GONE from cyberspace.
Published: Saturday, August 16th, 2014 @ 8:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Before an entrepreneur considers whether to expand his business or move to a new location, he typically goes through a checklist that includes most, if not all, of these items...
Published: Tuesday, July 15th, 2014 @ 10:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Duke Energy has selected five North Carolina properties for participation in its 2014 Site Readiness Program to prepare the properties for potential industrial development.
Published: Monday, April 21st, 2014 @ 9:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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What high school curriculum best prepares a student for college? Which majors yield the highest-paying jobs? Does being held back in kindergarten ultimately help or hurt lifelong educational performance?
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 2:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Education leaders and some politicians for years have urged that pay for educators in North Carolina be at "the national average," a goal used for no other employment sector in the state as a metric to gauge the appropriateness of pay.
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 11:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What high school curriculum best prepares a student for college? Which majors yield the highest-paying jobs? Does being held back in kindergarten ultimately help or hurt lifelong educational performance? A new data collection program may provide the necessary long-term information to...
Published: Sunday, December 29th, 2013 @ 11:37 am
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina's housing market remained relatively stable in the post-recession years of 2010-12 according to the American Community Survey (ACS) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Published: Sunday, November 17th, 2013 @ 11:47 am
By: David Winstead
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Governor Pat McCrory, along with U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, N.C. Sen. Dan Soucek, N.C. Rep. Edgar Starnes (Majority Leader), Duke Energy State President Paul Newton and Google Operations Manager Enoch Moeller announced that Google will invest an additional $600 million in the Lenoir data center.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2013 @ 9:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory continues to build a strong team of talent by naming Tony Almeida as Senior Advisor to the governor for Jobs and the Economy, Fred Steen as the governor's Legislative Liaison and Chris Estes as State Chief Information Officer.
Published: Monday, January 7th, 2013 @ 10:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Several years ago, North Carolina was almost breathlessly headed full speed into the world of technology with grants to Dell Corporation in support of a computer assembly plant near Winston Salem.
Published: Sunday, June 5th, 2011 @ 6:27 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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