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“There’s been a real freedom here,” says filmmaker Andrew Erwin.
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2026 @ 11:40 am
By: Daily Wire
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As public interest in getting the COVID-19 vaccine fell to a new low, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will now be upping its incentive to giving 2 free donuts to anyone who takes the shot.
Published: Monday, January 29th, 2024 @ 1:20 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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"A lot of these bills function as what I call a Freddy Krueger bill," said Rep. Keith Kidwell, R-Beaufort. "Right about the time you think they are dead, someone breathes new life into them."
Published: Monday, December 11th, 2023 @ 12:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced appointments to boards and commissions.
Published: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 11:27 pm
By: Governor's Office
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With the war against Russia still raging, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced a new incentive program to encourage women to enlist in the Ukrainian military, with each woman who signs up receiving a free pumpkin spice latte.
Published: Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 @ 12:03 am
By: Babylon Bee
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One of the nation’s oldest and largest insurance companies had its incentives package terminated by the North Carolina Economic Investment Committee Tuesday for failing to add thousands of jobs to its operations center in Charlotte.
Published: Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 @ 9:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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One of the sticking points in the state budget negotiations is the $1.4 billion proposed in the Senate version for NCInnovation, a private, non-profit created by some NC business leaders in 2018, aimed at providing grants for applied research at select UNC-system universities.
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2023 @ 11:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Criticism continues to mount over the North Carolina Senate’s decision to include $1.4 billion for NCInnovation in its proposed budget. Not only would it be a massive crony scheme using taxpayer dollars to reward select businesses by political appointees, the organization’s own justifications contin
Published: Tuesday, September 19th, 2023 @ 2:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Monday, North Carolina Senate leaders unveiled their proposed state budget. Governor Cooper will be under pressure to sign the final version because Medicaid expansion, a bill he signed earlier this year, is tied to passing a budget.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 2:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Ongoing trend continues of companies not living up to their economic promises to North Carolina despite JDIG incentives.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 2:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Recently, Golden LEAF President, Chief Executive Officer Scott T. Hamilton sat down with North Carolina Department of Commerce Secretary Machelle Baker Sanders, via Zoom and filmed the twentieth edition in a video series called Critical Conversations.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 12:02 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Largest and most geographically diverse cohort of award winners in the latest round of One North Carolina Small Business Program grants
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2022 @ 1:28 am
By: Governor's Office
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MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hi, everyone. Good afternoon.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 12:59 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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32 companies received JDIG incentives in 2021, most of which will last 12 years, totally $1.2 billion taxpayer dollars.
Published: Thursday, July 28th, 2022 @ 4:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Economic development incentives divert taxpayer money to politically favored companies at the expense of the rest of the state
Published: Thursday, July 21st, 2022 @ 10:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Facebook’s parent company Meta sends outgoing COO Sheryl Sandberg to Visit North Carolina
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2022 @ 10:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A California mother is furious at her son’s school because she claims they bribed him with pizza to get him vaccinated and then instructed him not to tell her he did so.
Published: Thursday, June 23rd, 2022 @ 4:07 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The $25 Summer Card pilot program operated by North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) was successful in encouraging COVID-19 vaccination.
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 10:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today Governor Roy Cooper announced that he signed an Executive Order to extend a variety of measures currently in place to respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic until July 30.
Published: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021 @ 2:39 am
By: Governor's Office
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Rockingham County one of four counties selected for NC DHHS $25 cash card vaccine incentive pilot program starting June 1
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 6:54 am
By: Governor's Office
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Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials
Published: Sunday, June 6th, 2021 @ 4:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Exec. Order No. 216 Expands Work Search Guidelines to Connect All Unemployment Claimants with Employers, Jobs
Published: Sunday, May 30th, 2021 @ 11:42 am
By: Governor's Office
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Corporate Welfare Program Continues to Benefit Wealthy Counties, Awards Another $624 Million in 2020North Carolina’s largest “economic incentive” program continued to favor the state’s already wealthy counties, according to a new report.
Published: Wednesday, May 12th, 2021 @ 2:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The economy is rigged, but not in the way Bernie Sanders thinks — capitalism is not the problem.
Published: Thursday, May 6th, 2021 @ 7:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The high price tag leaves a bad taste for some
Published: Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 @ 2:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Over the weekend, a reporter asked me to comment on Senate Bill 493.
Published: Monday, May 3rd, 2021 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the American Rescue Plan is changing the course of the pandemic and delivering relief for working families, this is no time to build back to the way things were.
Published: Sunday, April 4th, 2021 @ 12:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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When it comes to giving out business incentives, you won’t find North Carolina at the top of the list.
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2021 @ 8:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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ECU research team awarded $1.5M grant to study watershed resiliency
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 @ 10:49 pm
By: ECU News Services
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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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For a guy claiming to be against “tax giveaways” to corporations, Gov. Roy Cooper sure seems to be fond of doling out taxpayer dollars to corporations.
Published: Monday, January 27th, 2020 @ 10:44 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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