Fayetteville native Brian Tyree Henry was among those nominated for an Oscar in this year’s 95th Annual Academy Awards. He was recognized for his role as James in the film “Causeway.”
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 9:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Former N.C. Governor Pat McCrory threw his hat in the ring on Wednesday to represent North Carolina in the United States Senate.
Published: Saturday, April 17th, 2021 @ 7:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill was filed today that would add another $34 million to the program that gives away taxpayer dollars to wealthy Hollywood movie studios.
Published: Monday, March 22nd, 2021 @ 10:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2018 Time, declared Georgia “the Hollywood of the South.” By then, Georgia had developed the largest film incentive program in the entire United States.
Published: Tuesday, February 4th, 2020 @ 12:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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WRAL reporter Tyler Dukes has examined job creation promises from North Carolina economic-development incentives programs and found them falling far, far short.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 @ 4:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine you've been given the task to argue that an industry needs government support to survive. How do you think you'd make that case?
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 10:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Here’s a look at a few items which may not have attracted big headlines over the final 48 hours of a hectic week on Jones Street
Published: Wednesday, November 6th, 2019 @ 10:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Since 2005, North Carolina has provided over $404 million in subsidies (tax credits and grant payments) to film production companies.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 6:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If it were a film, North Carolina’s subsidy program wouldn’t be a box office smash. A recent study from the Western Carolina University Center for the Study of Free Enterprise says the $400 million North Carolina taxpayers have invested in film subsidies has failed to pay dividends.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 @ 12:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sometimes, when trying to explain how a political issue is a thorny mess, I've used the phrase "public-choice problem." Recent examples include such issues as occupational licensing, film incentives, government favoritism for renewable energy, even funeral regulations.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 11:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A bipartisan group of state representatives filed House Bill 751, resurrecting a 25 percent tax credit program.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 5:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, August 30th, 2018 @ 10:39 am
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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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Sunday, June 10th, 2018 @ 6:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The proposed new state budget would not expand the state’s overall film grant program this year
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 @ 12:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The spending total in his proposal comes to $24.54 billion, $500 million more than the $23.9 billion spending target recently agreed upon by the legislature.
Published: Thursday, May 17th, 2018 @ 7:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, November 27th, 2017 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Ted Davis, R-New Hanover, bucked conservative critics who strenuously objected to making a $30-million taxpayer subsidy to Hollywood a permanent annual state allocation
Published: Monday, October 9th, 2017 @ 11:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Film director Rob Reiner and other Hollywood notables have railed against North Carolina, threatened not to work in the state again, and raised the possibility of economic boycotts because of House Bill 2, the so-called bathroom bill
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2017 @ 12:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposal to try to lure the film industry to make movies, TV shows, and commercials in North Carolina by returning to an abandoned tax incentives program is meeting resistance
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Crony capitalism is a term that we have been hearing a lot lately. The term has come into use to distinguish the kind of economic system we, in large part, have in this country with true free market capitalism. In the former there is a cozy relationship between business, particularly big business...
Published: Friday, March 18th, 2016 @ 2:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This year's legislative session turned out to be an ideological struggle, not between Republicans and Democrats, but between two factions within the Republican Party. (The factions exist outside the GOP as well, but Republicans control the governor's office and hold supermajorities to make...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 5:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This year's legislative session turned out to be an ideological struggle, not between Republicans and Democrats but between two factions within the Republican Party. This tension goes to the heart of one's belief in free markets as the most moral and efficient way to organize economic activity...
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 10:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We've heard some tough talk. Everyone is beating their chest getting ready for the upcoming elections.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 3:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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On a steamy Tuesday afternoon in Raleigh, the NC House of Representatives voted 112-0 not to concur with the Senate's version of the 2015-2016 Budget (House Bill #97). Now, hard core negotiating begins.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 10:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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An unusual coalition of 12 liberal Democrats and 11 conservative Republicans comprised the only formal opposition to the $22.1-billion General Fund budget passed around 1:15 a.m. May 22 by the state House of Representatives.
Published: Monday, June 8th, 2015 @ 11:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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By the middle of June, state Senate leaders have promised to pass a budget for the next two fiscal years, and they swear it will be a lot different from the one that got through the House just before Memorial Day - less spending, more saving, fewer deals for special interests, and (possibly) even mo
Published: Saturday, June 6th, 2015 @ 4:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The editors of The Fayetteville Observer are interested in the film industry and with storytelling in general. An example of the latter came to my attention recently.
Published: Sunday, February 15th, 2015 @ 2:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the legislature comes back into session, there is a renewed focus on what are typically referred to as economic incentives, or by many who are more skeptical of such programs, corporate welfare or simply cronyism. Programs that are and will continue to be debated are subsidies to...
Published: Tuesday, January 27th, 2015 @ 9:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans have been quick to claim their tax reform agenda eliminated many unfair tax loopholes and carve-outs for special interests in North Carolina, but there are strong signals that tax-fueled incentives could return in the upcoming session.
Published: Saturday, January 24th, 2015 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's film tax incentives program has changed significantly. Formerly a refundable tax credit of 25 percent of qualifying production expenses capped at $20 million per production, the program now is a $10 million grant program.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers will return to the state capital later in January with a lengthy agenda, including taking another crack at Medicaid reform, considering a $1 billion highway bond, and tackling what recent projections reveal to be a $190 million revenue shortfall.
Published: Monday, January 5th, 2015 @ 6:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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