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In District 6, Republican incumbent Tariq Bokhari narrowly won the race for city council.
Published: Monday, August 1st, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The JLF research staff is completing the upcoming edition of our City and County Issue Guide, and in so doing I am writing about convention centers, stadiums, and other municipal vanity projects. The projects are invariably sold to city leaders as sure-fire ways to boost the local economy and raise
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2014 @ 6:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Got a flat tire? *Man, if the Democrats still controlled the legislature, that nail would NEVER have been in the road.*
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 12:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A postelection briefing by the N.C. FreeEnterprise Foundation spelled out the magnitude of the dramatic gains made by Republicans in the Nov. 6 election.
Published: Monday, November 12th, 2012 @ 7:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory became North Carolina's third Republican governor since Reconstruction and the first since the 19th century to work with a General Assembly controlled by his own party, as the GOP built on its electoral momentum from 2010.
Published: Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 @ 2:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The GOP nominees for the top two posts we'll be voting for on November 6 can really vouch for the old theorem about "right place, right time."
Published: Thursday, November 1st, 2012 @ 9:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We are still more than a month from Election Day, so I'm not ready to make predictions about state and federal races yet. For the sake of argument, however, let's imagine that the current polling leads for Barack Obama and Pat McCrory are predictive of the outcomes of their respective races.
Published: Thursday, October 4th, 2012 @ 3:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I don't find the structure of North Carolina's tax code to be at all surprising. I find it confusing, destructive, unfair, and absurd, as do most folks who have ever studied it. But no one should ever be surprised that tax systems are screwy.
Published: Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012 @ 12:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If official Charlotte was hoping to roll out the welcome mat for the tens of thousands of visitors who have come to town for the Democratic National Convention, the folks in charge in Uptown are off to a rough start.
Published: Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 @ 12:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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No matter what happens in the gubernatorial election this year, a political string will be broken - our governor will no longer hail from Eastern North Carolina.
Published: Monday, July 30th, 2012 @ 10:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past decade, the concept pitched by urban studies guru Richard Florida of the "creative class" has driven a lot of economic development decisions by cities across the country and around the world.
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 @ 8:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans could strengthen their grip on the North Carolina legislature and recapture a majority in the state's congressional delegation in 2012, due in large part to a friendly redistricting plan.
Published: Monday, March 26th, 2012 @ 3:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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