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Johnson greenlights legislation to reverse the controversial phone records provision passed in the government funding bill
Published: Monday, November 17th, 2025 @ 11:43 pm
By: ENC NOW
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John Lee Thiel, 78, of Washington, NC, and a distinguished U.S. Air Force veteran, passed away on Sunday, February 11, 2024. In accordance with his wishes, there will be no formal service.
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 6:56 am
By: Announcements
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North Carolina Legislators Now Exempt from Public Records Thanks to New Budget Addition
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 1:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Friday, Sept. 22, the General Assembly passed a budget which contains a new provision that would allow lawmakers total discretion over destroying records.
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 2:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislators added a provision to the state budget that would make them functionally exempt from public records law
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2024 @ 8:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jon Sanders, director of the Center for Food, Power, and Life at the John Locke Foundation, assesses Dr. Mandy Cohen’s record as head of North Carolina’s top health agency.
Published: Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 @ 11:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, is ranked as America’s most popular senator, according to newly released polling.
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 10:20 am
By: Daily Wire
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Another poor choice for a "success story" by NCInnovation further undercuts the organization's case
Published: Tuesday, September 26th, 2023 @ 6:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Worship leader Paul "Seven-String" Johnson recently introduced a worship song that came out in 2021 as a "classic hymn," according to sources at Grace Explosion Church.
Published: Sunday, September 17th, 2023 @ 10:02 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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A headline of “BREAKING: Computer Model Produces Results As Designed” would not sound quite as horrifying as what credulous media treated us with last week.
Published: Wednesday, September 6th, 2023 @ 9:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton never called it a Revolution. They referred to the war with England as “The Cause,” according to Pulitzer Prize winning author Joseph Ellis.
Published: Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 @ 11:04 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The State Board of Elections will hold an in-person meeting at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 13, 2023, at the Embassy Suites Concord, 5400 John Q. Hammons Dr NW, Concord, NC 28027
Published: Sunday, August 13th, 2023 @ 5:16 pm
By: ENC NOW
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North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall announced during this month’s small business week that new business filings are still at near-record levels in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @ 11:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Special counsel John Durham‘s long-awaited report serves as a guide for how Congress can further investigate the Russiagate controversy, according to a top GOP lawmaker.
Published: Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 @ 4:44 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Republican Sen. Ron Johnson has defeated Democratic candidate Mandela Barnes in the Wisconsin Senate election, according to a projection from DecisionDeskHQ.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 7:28 am
By: Daily Wire
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Democrat John Fetterman has won the hotly contested Pennsylvania Senate race against Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, according to a projection.
Published: Monday, November 14th, 2022 @ 2:40 am
By: Daily Wire
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Pennsylvania Lt. Governor and Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman recently removed a Black Lives Matter section from his website, according to a Wednesday report from Fox News.
Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 @ 10:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Pennsylvania Lt. Governor and Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman sends at least one of his children to a private school with a five-figure tuition despite opposing voucher programs, according to a Friday report from The Washington Free Beacon.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 9:27 am
By: Daily Wire
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The disciplinary process of FBI agents who mishandled the 2016 Crossfire Hurricane investigation has “slowed” while special counsel John Durham’s investigation continues, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2022 @ 11:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina continues to create businesses at a rapid pace. Thanks to conservative policies, more individuals are empowered to identify market opportunities and bear the uncertainty that comes with starting a business.
Published: Saturday, April 16th, 2022 @ 8:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Biden administration’s decision to call for a pause to the Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine has caused confidence in the vaccine to plummet, according to a new poll.
Published: Saturday, April 17th, 2021 @ 7:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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Nihal Krishan of the Washington Examiner highlights the track record of an economist who influences Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2020 @ 9:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon documents another record for American gun sales.
Published: Saturday, August 8th, 2020 @ 5:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina wide receiver C.J. Johnson has been named to the 2019 Football Writers Association of America-Shaun Alexander Freshman All-America Team presented by Stand Together according to an announcement by the organization Monday.
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2020 @ 3:37 pm
By: ECU Sports
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On Sunday, Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich, a man with a mixed record on guns for decades (he voted for the assault weapons ban in 1994, earning him a temporary F from the NRA, but rehabilitated himself by signing into law a significant amount of pro-gun legislation in Ohio), suggested a comple
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2018 @ 3:25 am
By: Daily Wire
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Most people will remember John Glenn as the astronaut who was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. After that event, his image was a carefully crafted and protected all American boy.
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 @ 7:26 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Governor Pat McCrory, N.C. Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced today that Yokohama Tire Corporation will establish a Technical Development Center in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, September 1st, 2016 @ 11:33 am
By: McCrory Communications
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On the front page of the November 28th edition of the Raleigh News and Observer the paper featured a report by Justin Catanoso, a Wake forest University journalism professor. The author expressed optimism that the Paris global warming conference would produce a "binding agreement to burn less...
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Superior Court judge ordered the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education to release previously undisclosed information about the circumstances surrounding the departure of a school superintendent in what media lawyer John Bussian said was "a big deal" for the public's right to know.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 9:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Solar energy is said to be renewable because it is "naturally replenished." One source defines solar power as renewable because "there is an endless supply." But the truth of the matter is that in any meaningful technological, economic, or practical sense solar is anything but renewable...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's tax code penalizes savings and investment by double taxing their returns - specifically interest, dividends, and capital gains. These biases can only be eliminated by removing savings and investment from the tax base, or by eliminating the returns to saving; for example...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The graph below compares the temperature predictions of the major climate models to actual climate change figures using satellite data, considered to be the most accurate, going back to 1979 when satellite records began. The graph, compiled by University of Alabama at Huntsville climatologists...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an article from WRAL.com lamenting the fact that economic development grants made by the state of North Carolina did not "create" as many jobs as originally intended, John Skvarla, North Carolina's Commerce Secretary and number 1 cheerleader for taxpayer funded business incentives, stated that...
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 2:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In this lecture to the Institute of Mechanical Engineers delivered this week, Patrick Moore, ecologist as well as founder and long time leader of Greenpeace, argues that the planet has actually been in a long term (50 million year) cooling trend; that long term temperature records...
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 @ 3:57 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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As part of his remarks while visiting the White House on his first day in the United States, Pope Francis made a strong plea on behalf of religious liberty, which he specifically directed at President Obama. This came shortly before he made an unscheduled visit with the Little Sisters of the Poor...
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 3:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For those of us who have been fighting to eliminate solar and other renewable energy subsidies from the burden being born by North Carolina's taxpayers, the new state budget is very welcome. As of January 1, the 35 percent tax credit for renewables in general and solar in particular, by far the...
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 5:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is now being acknowledged by even its staunchest supporters that the solar industry in North Carolina is completely a creature of government mandates and subsidies and could never stand on its own without wealth transfers from taxpayers and rate payers. In other words, it is completely welfare...
Published: Saturday, September 12th, 2015 @ 4:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have never been a fan of the Fair Tax, a proposal to abolish the income tax and substitute a national sales tax. My opposition has nothing to do with the merits of a national sales tax as opposed to an income tax per se. Clearly, as an economist, I agree that the proper and most efficient tax...
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2015 @ 9:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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At a recent event with Harry Reid in Las Vegas President Obama accused conservatives of being inconsistent in their support for free markets. Why? Apparently because they are "not for" solar power. Here's what he had to say to the gathering...
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 4:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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