North Carolina has climbed to rank 9th in the nation for its tax climate, according to the latest study conducted by the nonprofit Tax Foundation.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 @ 3:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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What: Raleigh Children’s Business Fair When: 2 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, October 8, 2023 Where: Midtown Park North Hills in Raleigh
Published: Wednesday, January 31st, 2024 @ 9:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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John Locke Foundation CEO Donald Bryson is one of the initial signers of the Freedom Conservatism Statement of Principles, a new document unveiled Thursday.
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 7:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Friday afternoon, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed two bills including one that would prevent state pension money from being invested using environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria in state investment decisions.
Published: Wednesday, September 6th, 2023 @ 8:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, the North Carolina Senate passed House Bill 750 (H.B. 750), a bill that prohibits the use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria from being a factor in state investment decisions, by a vote of 29-18.
Published: Sunday, August 6th, 2023 @ 8:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In November’s midterm elections, the stakes are high in the two races for the North Carolina Supreme Court. The high court currently has a 4-3 Democrat majority, so if Republicans flip just one seat, the balance shifts on the court.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 10:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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“One of the greatest dangers right now to the practice of democracy is simply a lack of raw material, information, about what is happening in our communities because the business structure of newspapering has been kicked out from under it.” - John Hood.
Published: Sunday, April 17th, 2022 @ 8:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein is getting a slew of complaints from consumers over ever-rising gas prices.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2022 @ 1:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Despite efforts from the left to bring cradle-to-grave big government to America, dozens of talented entrepreneurs, ages 6 to 14, displayed their keen business sense as part of the annual Raleigh Children’s Business Fair in early October.
Published: Monday, November 8th, 2021 @ 3:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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There is broad agreement that North Carolina is better suited to handle redistricting in a more transparent fashion than a decade ago, but further improvements can be made to the process according to a wide spectrum of speakers at Duke University’s Redistricting and American Democracy two day sympos
Published: Sunday, November 7th, 2021 @ 8:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021 @ 4:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The COVID-19 crisis has brought death, economic destruction, and wrenching social change.
Published: Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 @ 8:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The most important elections in North Carolina are the races for the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2020 @ 10:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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While Washington politicians bicker over a massive coronavirus rescue package, North Carolina businesses and nonprofits are scrambling to help patch the economy.
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2020 @ 8:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Free speech is in trouble on college campuses. Social justice indoctrination is to blame.
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2019 @ 5:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If you are a certain age, it may have been delivering newspapers in the neighborhood
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2018 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislators and policy advocates debated Tuesday in Gastonia over a proposed constitutional amendment which would lower the cap on state income tax rates from 10 to 7 percent
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2018 @ 1:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hometown children's fairs are places where you can buy paintings for $10 or rice crispy treats for $3
Published: Thursday, October 11th, 2018 @ 1:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A proposed constitutional amendment requiring a photo ID to vote has sparked controversy in state politics
Published: Friday, October 5th, 2018 @ 9:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Is a constitutional amendment on the November ballot changing the way judicial vacancies are filled a good step toward merit selection of judges, or a reckless consolidation of power?
Published: Thursday, September 27th, 2018 @ 11:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If critics of Confederate monuments truly want to accomplish their goal of removing such objects from the public square, I'm a good example of the kind of person they ought to be trying to persuade
Published: Saturday, August 18th, 2018 @ 2:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In this politically polarized moment in our history, what unites us? Surely one value nearly all of us have in common is a belief in the importance and power of donating our time, expertise, and dollars to worthy organizations and causes that serve our communities
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2018 @ 7:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is teeming with new business owners, some of whom not yet old enough for middle school
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2017 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you believe the political debate in North Carolina and the rest of the country has grown coarse, predictable, and unproductive, you're not alone
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2017 @ 10:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jim Cain didn't feel any sense of urgency when he noticed his daughter had texted him on the morning of March 22, 2016. Nor did her immediate follow-up phone call cause concern
Published: Tuesday, May 16th, 2017 @ 10:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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John Locke Foundation founder and former chairman Art Pope today was elected chairman of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, one of the nation's largest conservative grantmaking charitable organizations
Published: Saturday, April 8th, 2017 @ 8:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper says he wants to defund North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship program against the will of North Carolina's conservative legislative majority
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 @ 2:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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