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NC did that years ago
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2026 @ 7:54 am
By: John Steed
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Washington, NC — Newly released financial data from the City of Washington’s Finance Department reveals a concerning fiscal trajectory marked by rising debt, rapid payroll growth, increasing staff levels, and declining resident income and population
Published: Thursday, February 5th, 2026 @ 4:22 pm
By: Joe Davis
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Cooking the books
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2024 @ 8:19 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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City employing all-of-government effort aimed at finding work for illegal immigrants, emails indicate
Published: Monday, March 18th, 2024 @ 3:27 am
By: Daily Wire
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The former town manager for the town of Elizabethtown in Bladen County, did not have payroll taxes withheld and possibly used the town’s credit card for non-valid town purposes.
Published: Monday, October 2nd, 2023 @ 4:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill to end payroll dues deductions for all public employees In North Carolina was introduced earlier this week.
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 3:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican lawmakers proposed a bill to replace the income, payroll, and estate taxes with a national sales tax while abolishing the IRS.
Published: Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 @ 4:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Children’s Investment Fund Management CEO Christopher Hohn called for Google parent company, Alphabet, to reduce its headcount by another 25,000 workers, referencing excessive median salaries and breakneck growth in payrolls.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 10:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Shares of Meta plunged nearly 24% on Thursday as the social media company severely missed quarterly earnings expectations amid criticism of bloated payrolls and distracted spending.
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2022 @ 12:07 am
By: Daily Wire
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The unemployment rate reached 3.7% in the month of October as payrolls rose by 261,000, according to a Friday report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Published: Saturday, November 12th, 2022 @ 6:22 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The shadowy Russian operative who was allegedly the key source for the discredited Steele dossier that may have helped spur the FBI’s Trump-Russia collusion probe was put on the bureau’s payroll despite prior concerns he was an agent of Moscow, according to Special Counsel John Durham.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 1:42 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Spring Lake Town Attorney Announces His Departure; Action Ensures Looming Payroll Will be Processed; Comes on Heels of Adverse State Audit
Published: Friday, March 25th, 2022 @ 12:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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WH cost rise under democrats
Published: Sunday, July 4th, 2021 @ 11:06 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Lawmakers in the North Carolina House fast-tracked a bill today that would allow businesses that received Payroll Protection Program loans from the federal government to have any expenses the funds were used for deducted from state tax.
Published: Sunday, May 2nd, 2021 @ 6:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Judicial Watch announced today it received 131 pages of payroll records from the District Attorney’s Office of the City and County of San Francisco detailing payments to Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) from when she was employed by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2020 @ 2:00 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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North Carolina’s community colleges are struggling to avoid revenue shortfalls and payroll problems.
Published: Friday, April 24th, 2020 @ 2:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper called on legislators to stand with him and North Carolina’s teachers to demand negotiations on a real pay raise for all educators on the state payroll.
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 8:11 am
By: Governor's Office
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Fake Frankie Waters, also known as King Frankie and Zip Code Waters was the guest speaker at the September 27 Beaufort County Republican Club meeting which was held at La Bella's Italian Restaurant.
Published: Tuesday, October 9th, 2018 @ 11:31 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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One reason teachers and state employees may not have seen the raises they wanted in recent years is that the government's cost for pensions and retiree health benefits has climbed from 8 percent of payroll 10 years ago to 19 percent of payroll this year
Published: Friday, July 27th, 2018 @ 1:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new report from State Auditor Beth Wood says the agency has not been able to certify that the North Carolina Association of Educators meets statutory membership (G.S. 143B-426.40(g) requirements to permit the state to perform payroll dues deductions
Published: Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 @ 2:39 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, North Carolina added some 11,000 jobs in April and nearly 107,000 jobs over the 12-month period. That's a annual growth rate in payroll employment of 2.6 percent, which exceeds the national and Southeastern averages (each 2.2 percent).
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 @ 3:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Because of tough decisions made by the General Assembly and Gov. Pat McCrory, North Carolina's payroll tax is expected to drop by about $280 million in 2016 and as much as $550 million by 2017. What you think about this sequence of events says a lot about your political philosophy and your...
Published: Friday, May 8th, 2015 @ 11:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Progressives everywhere are calling for an increase in the minimum wage. (For a look at the progressive movement's historical support for the minimum wage see this article.) The amount of the increase depends on who is calling for it. President Obama wants a 40 percent hike from the current...
Published: Saturday, December 13th, 2014 @ 8:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Not much, it would seem. Yet according to the latest data, they are among the states leading the national pack in economic performance. The closer you look at the list of top performers, the more you start to see patterns that help explain why some states are faring well and others aren't within...
Published: Sunday, December 7th, 2014 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory and the GOP-led state legislature are at odds over the budget, Medicaid reform, Common Core, and other issues.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 8:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The weather is getting warmer, the plants are in bloom, and people are starting to spend more time outside. Yes, it's springtime, and as we get more comfortable with the season change, one thing continues to put a damper on things - tax day. April 15 arrived today, but do you know exactly...
Published: Thursday, April 17th, 2014 @ 11:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I know my advice is fated to be hated. I know it's hard to follow. But I'm going to offer it, anyway - again. Politicians and pundits across the ideological spectrum should avoid drawing sweeping conclusions from limited, preliminary data about North Carolina's labor market.
Published: Tuesday, April 1st, 2014 @ 5:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've devoted several recent columns to the subject of unemployment insurance (UI) and North Carolina's labor market. That's because the topic is an important and timely one, both within the state and outside it.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2014 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For North Carolina liberals intent on recovering some political power in Raleigh, a funny thing happened on the way to a quorum: reality intruded on their most-cherished claims about the two biggest issues in North Carolina politics.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 @ 2:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although it may not seem obvious at first, there is a common denominator between two separate dramas playing out in Washington and Raleigh right now. Nationally, the top story in domestic policy is the impending implementation of the Affordable Care Act a.k.a. Obamacare.
Published: Thursday, September 26th, 2013 @ 3:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As a longtime advocate of shortening North Carolina's ballot and rationalizing the distribution of executive power in state government, I was glad to see some folks reacting to a recent News & Observer series on workers-comp evasion by calling for state agency reorganization.
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2012 @ 7:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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