North Carolina has made another top-10 list - one that should make the state's fiscal conservatives particularly happy
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 @ 3:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2015, the city of Raleigh spent $4.62 million on on-road bikeways. Between 2009 and 2015, Raleigh grew its bikeways from 73 miles to 179 miles
Published: Monday, July 25th, 2016 @ 12:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Should the government keep taxes higher in order to finance schools, roads, and other public services, even if the higher taxes discourage some private investment and entrepreneurship
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 @ 3:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Approximately 55 percent of North Carolina's $21.9 billion state budget is spent on education. About 70 percent of all money devoted to education is spent on K-12 education
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 10:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Jones thanks Chairman Harold Rogers (KY-5) for acting on Jones' March 17 request to include language in federal spending bills to ensure that computer networks in federal agencies block the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography
Published: Friday, June 3rd, 2016 @ 4:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The city wants to spend a large amount of taxpayers’ money to build a ballpark complex. It won’t just be a ballpark. The facility would also be designed to host soccer, lacrosse, and other sporting events.
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2016 @ 6:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What would North Carolina look like with Roy Cooper as governor? Today, the North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) launched a website, backtothefuturenc.com, and digital ad campaign to take North Carolinians back in time to examine Roy Cooper's long 30-year record as a Raleigh insider and show how
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 @ 10:15 am
By: Chris Downey
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The 2015 long legislative session has proven to be just that: long. Many productive ideas have been discussed, among them whether we should take advantage of low interest rates and construction costs to borrow and address long-neglected needs; whether insurance companies or providers should...
Published: Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 @ 2:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lower taxes and government spending. Energy policy reform.
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 @ 8:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The most recent Civitas Poll of North Carolina voters compared their current views with the positions of voters in May 2005, when Civitas took its first poll.
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 @ 11:34 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Wikipedia defines "pork barrel" spending as "the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative's district."
Published: Wednesday, March 18th, 2015 @ 2:38 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A new report, funded by the North Carolina Chamber Foundation, makes what the Foundation and the report's authors at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) obviously believe to be a strong case for new spending on highway infrastructure in North Carolina. The title of the...
Published: Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 @ 11:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government is measured everyday for different reasons and from different perspectives. Some measure government by the number of laws that have been enacted. Others look at the amount of tax revenue that is collected and the size of the operating budget. Still others look at more subjective measur
Published: Thursday, November 20th, 2014 @ 10:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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