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The old proverb states that April showers bring May Flowers. So, what does August heat bring? Answer: Huge electric bills. My July bill was so high I was convinced my meter was broken and called to get a service person to my house.
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 @ 8:56 am
By: Tom Campbell
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NC has enacted same monster, only worse on our citizens
Published: Thursday, November 10th, 2022 @ 8:26 pm
By: John Steed
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Woke Duke Power wants expensive wind and solar
Published: Monday, August 15th, 2022 @ 9:03 pm
By: John Steed
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NC has a pedophile energy monopoly
Published: Thursday, June 9th, 2022 @ 8:00 am
By: John Steed
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Moore pushing special intererest HB951, which is NC's Green New Deal
Published: Sunday, August 15th, 2021 @ 11:38 am
By: John Steed
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RINOs line up with energy bandits to adopt California style policies on energy
Published: Thursday, July 22nd, 2021 @ 9:08 am
By: John Steed
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North Carolina remains vulnerable to fuel shortages because it’s too reliant on a pair of pipelines for gas and energy, industry leaders and experts told lawmakers.
Published: Thursday, May 27th, 2021 @ 2:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In what may be a first, the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) has put on its docket a petition to declare that a renewable power facility is in fact a public utility under NC law
Published: Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 @ 3:23 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Republican-led General Assembly in the just-ended 2016 short session maintained spending restraint, created and enlarged fiscal safeguards in case of an economic downturn, granted more income tax relief
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2016 @ 8:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Saturday, June 11th, 2016 @ 3:56 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Despite widespread vocal opposition from area business leaders and residents, Gov. Pat McCrory and North Carolina Department of Transportation officials maintain it is too late for the state to scrap the controversial 26-mile Interstate 77 tolling project between Charlotte and Mooresville in favor o
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 10:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Utilities rely on easements to control a considerable amount of land in North Carolina. But state law also places limits on the amount of time a utility has to enforce easements it holds — currently, six years. The state's second highest court recently affirmed that six-year statute of...
Published: Friday, January 2nd, 2015 @ 8:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Perhaps you have noticed that many jobs requiring only basic skills and a cooperative attitude are now walled off to Americans who don't possess a college degree.
Published: Sunday, December 28th, 2014 @ 12:55 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that a proposed 550-mile natural gas pipeline will bring hundreds of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activity to North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, September 4th, 2014 @ 12:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Speaker of The House tried to ram through a bill containing a smorgasbord of odds-and-ends spending desired by the governor and various special interests.
Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2014 @ 1:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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If the powers-that-be in the North Carolina House have their way, that will be absolutely true.
Published: Wednesday, August 20th, 2014 @ 10:08 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Chests are being thumped defiantly at Low-T headquarters on Raleigh's Jones Street. The McClatchy drive-bys are convinced that they have found Gov. Pat McCrory's Watergate.
Published: Monday, August 18th, 2014 @ 10:44 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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NC DHHS' Division of Public Health is updating the health advisories issued in February 2014 related to the coal ash spill in the Dan River near Eden.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 4:05 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Beaufort County Economic Developer Bob Heuts has resigned, effective June 25, 2014, as Beaufort County's EDC executive officer.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 10:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Every time a new study comes out regarding the "payoff" from college, I wonder: Will this finally be the one that takes note of widespread underemployment among recent grads and comprehends the impact of credential inflation?
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 6:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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We've come to realize there is A LOT of "theatre" in politics. Both sides holler about the other doing the little people wrong. Both sides claim to have the best interests of the people at heart - to be good stewards of their money.
Published: Friday, March 14th, 2014 @ 12:52 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again," wrote the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes. "There is nothing new under the sun." More than two millennia later, Karl Marx, wrote that history repeated itself "the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 10:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory Addresses Public Health Workers, Announces Appointments to Public Health CommissionThe Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced appointments to the North Carolina State Commission for Public Health after the governor addressed the State Health Director's 2014 conference meeting in Raleigh.
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 11:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Pope Center celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2013. Our organization was initially part of the John Locke Foundation, but became independent in 2003. One of our activities is researching problems in higher education and issuing findings and recommendations in major reports...
Published: Friday, January 3rd, 2014 @ 12:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today.
Published: Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 @ 7:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We've got it pretty good here in Moore County. One of the lowest tax rates (and crime rates) in North Carolina. World-class golf courses. Lots of great dining and shopping.
Published: Saturday, December 21st, 2013 @ 1:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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