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Carolina Journal is taking a brief look at each new member of the General Assembly — 10 in the Senate and 11 in the House.
Published: Sunday, February 14th, 2021 @ 8:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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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The House passed a franchise tax cut and expanded film grants despite an attempt to shoot down the expansion of film grants.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2019 @ 11:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A corporate tax cut expected to pass at the end of the General Assembly’s session surprisingly wound up on the cutting room floor.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2019 @ 12:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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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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 state legislature regularly draws fire for its decision to end an old, very generous tax break for film and TV production and replace it with a smaller, more-targeted grant program
Published: Thursday, March 15th, 2018 @ 10:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When Roy Cooper was elected governor of North Carolina, he faced an uphill battle to fulfill any of his campaign promises
Published: Thursday, July 20th, 2017 @ 1:58 am
By: Governor's Office
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper sought common ground during his first State of the State address to the Republican-controlled General Assembly on Monday night
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2017 @ 1:12 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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Governor Roy Cooper today released his recommended budget for 2017-2019, Common Ground Solutions for NC, to invest in a better educated, healthier and more prosperous North Carolina without raising taxes or fees
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 10:56 am
By: Governor's Office
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's selection of Rep. Susi Hamilton as secretary of natural and cultural resources is emblematic of the philosophical contrast between Cooper and the GOP legislative majority, state Rep. Chris Millis said
Published: Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 @ 6:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In recollecting 2015, I remember legendary CBS Newsman Walter Cronkite, who closed each evening's newscast by saying,
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 3:38 am
By: Tom Campbell
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This series, entitled "Cut This, Go Home," includes several budget items that should no longer receive taxpayer funding because they fall well outside the legitimate, core functions of government.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 11:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Gov. Pat McCrory called on lawmakers to honor a promise to increase starting teacher salaries to $35,000 and included salary boosts for state troopers and corrections officers Thursday as he unveiled his $21.5 billion General Fund budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year.
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 9:18 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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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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Governor McCrory and others are advocating the restoration of the historic preservation tax credit.
Published: Saturday, December 27th, 2014 @ 8:45 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Imagine with me for a moment what would happen if Gov. Pat McCrory's office and state legislative leaders released the following joint statement regarding a special session to address economic development in North Carolina
Published: Sunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 11:43 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Jobs remain the most important issue facing North Carolina. Our government does not create jobs; however, it creates the environment in which job creators flourish.
Published: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014 @ 11:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Every once in a while we’re blessed with a lone voice of common sense, out in the wilderness, trying to inject some common sense into the nonsense that is the Raleigh political circus.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 12:55 am
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina legislators have been to school in the complications and frustrations resulting from tax policy changes.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 1:07 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Our lawmakers have been embroiled in contentious debates about teacher pay and Medicaid, among other issues, as they struggle to revise our $21 billion state budget.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 7:31 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Even though the Senate has yet to reject the House’s version of the 2014-15 general fund budget (final House passage came Friday, a day after senators left town), negotiators from both chambers will get to work this week hammering out a compromise of the $21.1 billion spending plan.
Published: Thursday, June 19th, 2014 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wilmington-area legislators and movie industry types are pretty mad. It looks like incentives for the film industry are not going to survive the state House. These folks REALLY thought they were going to keep getting these goodies. And for good reason.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 11:46 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Those of us who consider ourselves moderates are following our state's current events with interest and no small measure of amusement.
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 12:09 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Efforts by the state's film industry to continue getting incentives from North Carolina taxpayers were revived Thursday when a Senate committee - and later the entire Senate - approved a new plan awarding grants to filmmakers.
Published: Monday, June 9th, 2014 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lobbyists for North Carolina's motion-picture industry, in an attempt to preserve an expiring taxpayer subsidy for film production in the state, are circulating two "talking points" documents to lawmakers attacking the credibility of those who have questioned the figures.
Published: Saturday, June 7th, 2014 @ 9:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Commissioners spent the afternoon walking the halls of the Legislature to meet with their Senators and Representatives and discuss county issues.
Published: Sunday, June 1st, 2014 @ 9:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This year's short session of the General Assembly may live up to its name. Lawmakers return to the capital today for the first time since the historic 2013 session in which they reformed the tax code, cut taxes, enacted broad changes to election laws, fought back against Medicaid expansion and...
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 12:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory's budget calls for teachers and state employees to get raises, the environmental police to add 19 positions to monitor coal ash, and budget authors to keep the state's spending plan structurally sound.
Published: Saturday, May 17th, 2014 @ 8:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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