In the final days of state budget negotiations, there was a pressurized hush around the legislative complex as lawmakers feuded over the sudden addition of legalizing four casinos to the nearly $30 billion state budget.
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 9:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Reverend Jimmy Elymas of Saint Balaam Episcopalian forcefully condemned a growing number of conservative churches who have spoken out against abortion, claiming they care more about politics than following Jesus.
Published: Thursday, January 11th, 2024 @ 10:43 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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Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper continues to give his veto pen a workout for the 14th time this year, this time vetoing a bill involving the expansion of charter schools, including being able to request money from counties for funding capital projects.
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 @ 6:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democratic Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Friday that he will switch his party affiliation to Republican.
Published: Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 @ 11:50 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Raleigh, N.C. — Candidate filing for the 2023 municipal elections begins at noon today, Friday, July 7, and ends at noon Friday, July 21.
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 10:34 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Dependable Energy Supply Essential to Maintain the State's Economic Growth and Citizens' Economic Stability
Published: Sunday, July 23rd, 2023 @ 11:52 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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National groups representing manufacturers, small businesses, and major corporations are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a sales tax dispute from North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 10:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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“Ironically, the decision to designate Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism and the decision to authorize this trip were made by the same agencies,” said Rep. David Rouzer, R-NC7.
Published: Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 @ 1:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Newly released legislation by Florida Republicans on Monday will allow Governor Ron DeSantis to appoint all five leaders of Disney’s tax district in Orlando and will officially rename the district.
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 9:32 am
By: Daily Wire
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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said during a press conference this week that Disney will pay its fair share of taxes moving forward as Republicans move to pass a new piece of legislation that will allow DeSantis to officially strip Disney of its self-governance powers.
Published: Thursday, February 16th, 2023 @ 4:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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Disney CEO Bob Iger is reportedly set to cut thousands of people from the company in an attempt to save money.
Published: Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 @ 7:55 am
By: Daily Wire
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Grateful Dead legend Jerry Garcia’s relatives are truckin’ out of California, apparently because the Golden State’s high taxes and anti-business climate are just too harsh on the family’s marijuana business.
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2023 @ 12:51 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Watauga County and three of its towns want the N.C. Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit from Boone. That town challenges Watauga's system for splitting local sales tax revenue.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2023 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The 2021 long session brought North Carolina a “First in Freedom” budget, with pro-growth tax cuts which will continue to reward taxpayers in 2023 and beyond.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 12:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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But All Five Local Sales Tax Proposals Were Defeated
Published: Thursday, November 24th, 2022 @ 9:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tyson Foods announced last week that all employees in the Chicago area would be relocated, rendering the meat and poultry company one of multiple businesses to pull operations from the Windy City in recent months.
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2022 @ 11:32 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Two Chatham County communities will soon be without twenty-seven homes, five businesses, and one church because the state of North Carolina is exercising its eminent domain powers to make way for VinFast, a startup Vietnamese auto company.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2022 @ 1:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you sincerely believe that the Biden Border Crisis is not a huge issue for all Americans, at all levels of governing, you are either slow to understand what is real, or extremely poor at math ... or both.
Published: Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 @ 12:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Democrats in the Senate voted along party lines on Sunday to pass the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act.”
Published: Saturday, August 20th, 2022 @ 8:33 am
By: Daily Wire
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Jason Furman, the former chairman of former President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), slammed Democrats on Tuesday for reportedly closing in on a deal that would repeal the cap on the deduction for state and local taxes (SALT), which would amount to a tax cut for the ultrawealthy.
Published: Friday, August 19th, 2022 @ 4:44 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Republican budget writers released their conference budget adjustments for the new fiscal year on Tuesday, circumventing the traditional appropriations process.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 3:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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All politics, all governing is local as I am often heard to repeat almost ad nauseum, and it is local because it is the local taxpayer that "pays the freight" for incredibly ignorant policy, by bone crushingly stupid politicians.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 6:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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'If we do the same with the opioid settlement money as they did with the tobacco settlement deal, I’ll vote against myself.” — State Rep. Sasser, R-Stanly, a retired pharmacist who co-chairs the House Health Appropriations Committee
Published: Friday, March 18th, 2022 @ 2:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New Treasury guidance on state and local Covid relief spending is a nod to government and a flippant disregard of taxpayers and small businesses.
Published: Friday, March 4th, 2022 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently the John Locke Foundation team met with candidates running for local office. We highlighted critical principles for local government’s fiscal health and sustainability.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, CNN reported that when asked about President Biden’s Build Back Better plan, West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin said bluntly, “It’s dead.”
Published: Saturday, February 19th, 2022 @ 7:04 am
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina is home to a number of funding institutions supporting economic development and related strategies necessary for economic growth.
Published: Sunday, February 13th, 2022 @ 7:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Commissioners will get another bite at the patriotic apple, a fruit they far too often hold in great disdain, to pass this necessary resolution.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 8:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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We’ve heard the characterization plenty of times over the years: Republicans are the party of the rich and Democrats are the party of the working class.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 10:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Democrats passed the centerpiece to Biden’s agenda last week with only one Democrat dissenter. The “Build Back Better” bill supposedly shrunk over time from $3.5 trillion to $2 trillion, yet this is only due to “temporary” programs and misleading math.
Published: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 2:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you are covering Kamala Harris’ visit to Charlotte today, please consider the following statement from the Republican National Committee
Published: Saturday, December 4th, 2021 @ 7:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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