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State auditors found that a former finance officer in the troubled municipality of East Laurinburg used town taxpayer money on personal expenses, which resulted in overdrafts of the town’s bank account.
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 8:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As the candidates for North Carolina attorney general, Republican Buck Newton and Democrat Josh Stein, met September 20 at Asheboro’s Sunset Theatre for their only formal debate, they couldn’t have known that just 90 minutes to their south and west, riots were about to break out in Charlotte
Published: Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Relatively speaking, North Carolina has a low rate of property taxation. That's a basic fact of public finance - but its implications are varied, significant, and underappreciated
Published: Thursday, May 5th, 2016 @ 11:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When you ask North Carolina voters to name the top election issue in state politics, the most common answer - unless we are in the midst of a recession - is education.
Published: Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 @ 11:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The county and state budgets are no different from your household budget. Governments, other than the Federal Government, can not spend more than they take in.
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 12:38 am
By: Hood Richardson
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To make a long story short, the great debate in North Carolina politics concerns how state and local governments can best promote economic growth and opportunity. Opinions differ widely, as one might expect. But generally speaking, they can be grouped into three schools of thought that bear...
Published: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am not always Mr. Negative (as some folks like to claim). I'll hand out kudos to folks who do good things.
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2013 @ 11:33 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Fiscal conservatism comes naturally to me. After all, my middle name is McDonald.
Published: Friday, April 26th, 2013 @ 11:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When Gov. Pat McCrory released his first state budget plan on the morning March 20, I happened to be driving to Charlotte for a meeting.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 10:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We yearn for that bright future but seem unwilling to take care of what we already have. This failure to invest in infrastructure will result in lost jobs, lost opportunities and even lost lives.
Published: Thursday, December 6th, 2012 @ 5:47 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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This time, it's the new Financial State of the States report by the Institute for Truth in Accounting, an Illinois-based nonprofit that has been pushing governments to reform their accounting practices for more than a decade.
Published: Monday, September 10th, 2012 @ 9:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A few days ago I wrote that the state spending plan just approved by the North Carolina General Assembly was the right and responsible thing to do given current fiscal and economic realities.
Published: Saturday, June 30th, 2012 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In my forthcoming book on North Carolina's economy, Our Best Foot Forward, I discuss at length the role that transportation has played in the state's economic history.
Published: Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 @ 4:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The next time you hear a North Carolina politician talk about the "need" to use tax dollars or public debt to build a new ballpark, convention center, rail line, or similar luxury, ask them this simple question: how much more do you think we can afford?
Published: Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 @ 10:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State and local government in North Carolina is a massive enterprise that spends tens of billions of tax dollars a year and employs hundreds of thousands of people, either directly as public employees or indirectly as vendors or contractors.
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 @ 9:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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