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Recently, Golden LEAF President, Chief Executive Officer Scott T. Hamilton sat down with Don Flow, Immediate Past Chair of the Golden LEAF Foundation Board of Directors via Zoom and filmed an episode of Critical Conversations.
Published: Monday, March 25th, 2024 @ 1:14 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed April 30 – May 6, 2023 as Small Business Week to celebrate the impact of entrepreneurs and small businesses on North Carolina’s economy.
Published: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 8:54 am
By: Governor's Office
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Recently, Golden LEAF President, Chief Executive Officer Scott T. Hamilton sat down with Brooks Raiford, President, Chief Executive Officer of the North Carolina Technology Association, via Zoom and filmed the seventeenth edition in a video series called Critical Conversations.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 1:31 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Don't Fall for the Game of Economic Impact Studies; Promote Economic Growth Instead
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 9:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Next week, thousands of North Carolinians who are out of work due to COVID-19 will see a drastic reduction in their unemployment benefits despite this pandemic being far from over.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2020 @ 4:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Last week, Governor Cooper wrote to the North Carolina Congressional delegation urging them to extend the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2020 @ 1:54 pm
By: Governor's Office
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In a stinging reproach to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her cohorts who scuttled the deal by which Amazon would have built a headquarters in Queens, Ocasio-Cortez's district, Amazon is reputedly going to place its headquarters in Manhattan instead.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 9:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On International Women's Day, we honor women worldwide for their vital role in shaping and strengthening our communities, families, governments, and businesses. We celebrate their vision, leadership.
Published: Friday, March 8th, 2019 @ 8:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We're here today to launch the first-ever, U.S. government-wide initiative focused on economic empowerment for women in developing countries.
Published: Tuesday, February 12th, 2019 @ 10:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Jan. 13, thousands of pro-life North Carolinians rallied in Raleigh to express their opposition to abortion. A week later, thousands rallied in Raleigh and other North Carolina cities to protest Donald Trump as well as Republican policies
Published: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 @ 11:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A runner could make major improvements in his 5K time by starting his race at the 1,000-meter mark
Published: Sunday, July 23rd, 2017 @ 7:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's hard not to play along when children come up with cute untruths
Published: Thursday, June 1st, 2017 @ 2:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University generates $2.8 billion for North Carolina's economy - dollars that make a mark on the state, eastern North Carolina, and our local area.
Published: Friday, March 27th, 2015 @ 6:07 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Beaufort County Community College adds about $99.5 million to the regional economy each year, equal to about 6.2 percent of the total gross regional product of the BCCC service area, according to one newly-released study.
Published: Sunday, February 22nd, 2015 @ 1:46 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The icy weather this week led to the closure of our college for two days and led to a delay in the disbursement of financial aid checks to our students. I hope this did not cause too much of a hardship but I certainly didn't want to risk the lives of our students, faculty and staff traveling on...
Published: Saturday, February 21st, 2015 @ 3:04 am
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker, along with the Economic Development Partnership of N.C., announced today that 89 new jobs will be coming to Wake County over the next three years. Overland Contracting Inc. will open its headquarters in Garner with an $8.4 million...
Published: Sunday, December 7th, 2014 @ 6:19 pm
By: Chris Downey
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So much is going on downtown throughout the holidays - it is impossible to list everything here!
Published: Friday, November 28th, 2014 @ 4:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A presentation prepared by the N.C. Commerce Department's Labor and Economic Analysis Division finds a net "negative budgetary impact" of North Carolina's film incentives.
Published: Sunday, April 6th, 2014 @ 2:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State lawmakers were presented Tuesday with a litany of potential horror stories related to the federal Affordable Care Act. At its worst, Obamacare would sock North Carolina with thousands of job losses, double-digit insurance premium increases, deep Medicare cuts to help pay for the health...
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 10:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is clearly time to increase the minimum wage. How can anyone be expected to live on the paltry minimum currently in force.. They really can't.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 4:49 am
By: Jim Bispo
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The people DownEast, specifically in the eastern portions of Beaufort County north of the Pamlico River and those in Hyde County are being faced with a double whammy - the loss of the inpatient facility at Pungo Hospital in Belhaven and the loss of a reported 127 jobs.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2013 @ 8:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Democratic lawmakers and left-leaning activists are advancing a meritless argument that unemployment benefits are an economic stimulus, critics say.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 5:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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According to a self-serving report paid for by the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association, $72 million in government subsidies received by...
Published: Saturday, April 6th, 2013 @ 11:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Assume North Carolina began a program to subsidize pyramid building, maybe because the population became convinced that pyramids had special healing powers and social benefits that would be spread to the entire population...
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The supporters of the EDC have made the argument that the spending on economic development has a multiplier effect on our local economy, whereby each dollar spent locally by the EDC is magnified by some positive fraction.
Published: Monday, November 12th, 2012 @ 10:05 am
By: Warren Smith
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Add to that a little over five thousand more for an engineering firm to evaluate the maintenance required on this facility that is designed to bring unending prosperity to the area and we are looking at a little over $20,000 of what some folks would call "wasted money".
Published: Thursday, February 16th, 2012 @ 7:50 am
By: Jim Bispo
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