risk of blackouts also peaking
Published: Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 @ 12:51 pm
By: John Steed
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Inflation is a deeply regressive tax, impacting all Americans, especially low-income households
Published: Friday, June 3rd, 2022 @ 12:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two former top economic officials for former President Barack Obama are warning that President Joe Biden’s massive social spending bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, will increase inflation at a time when rates are already skyrocketing.
Published: Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 @ 11:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Coming this fall
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 7:37 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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After a historic period of rock-bottom interest rates and equally historic infusions of cash into the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates yesterday by a half of a percentage point
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 11:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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green energy boondoggle and Russian gas to blame
Published: Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 @ 9:03 am
By: John Steed
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NC is on the same path due to Roy Cooper and RINOs Moore and Berger and HB951
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 9:52 am
By: John Steed
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Youngkin is consumer focused and Cooper is ideologically focused
Published: Sunday, January 16th, 2022 @ 8:33 am
By: John Steed
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HB 951 sets NC up for the very same problems
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 7:44 pm
By: John Steed
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New District needs new conservative representation
Published: Friday, November 12th, 2021 @ 3:27 pm
By: John Steed
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China keeps cheap and reliable coal while pushing west to wind and solar
Published: Saturday, October 30th, 2021 @ 8:27 pm
By: John Steed
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HB 951 would soak electric consumers and taxpayers so woke Duke Energy can virtue signal
Published: Monday, August 23rd, 2021 @ 10:59 am
By: John Steed
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House Bill 951 would retire coal plants, increase natural gas, and mandate increases in renewable capacity, but high costs and erosion of N.C. Utilities Commission authorities unite stakeholders in opposition.
Published: Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 @ 8:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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“There’s nothing good going on after midnight that you need to be part of,” my momma repeatedly told me.
Published: Friday, August 6th, 2021 @ 3:04 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The N.C. Utilities Commission on Friday, April 16, issued an order approving a partial rate increase for Duke Energy Progress and a settlement addressing coal ash cleanup costs.
Published: Thursday, April 22nd, 2021 @ 11:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As candidates for their respective offices, both Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein took bold stands defending electricity consumers from being made to pay for coal ash cleanup costs.
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 4:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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My colleague Don van der Vaart writes today about NC Attorney General Josh Stein’s bizarre settlement announcement this week despite recently declaring a December NC Supreme Court “a major win for electricity consumers on coal ash cleanup costs.”
Published: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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My colleague Don van der Vaart writes today about NC Attorney General Josh Stein’s bizarre settlement announcement this week
Published: Monday, February 1st, 2021 @ 11:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division of Health Benefits (NC Medicaid) is extending temporary provider rate increases related to COVID-19 through the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency, which goes through Jan. 21, 2021.
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2020 @ 3:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Thank Heaven For The Postmaster General And His Lieutenant
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2020 @ 8:33 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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WE have all been living in a "twilight zone" where we were forced to remain at home and await a pandemic that was predicted to take 2 million US Lives.
Published: Friday, May 1st, 2020 @ 8:45 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Republican lawmakers are considering temporarily expanding Medicaid to cover uninsured residents’ coronavirus testing and treatment, House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, said during a meeting of the House Committee on COVID-19 Health Care Working Group.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 @ 12:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Even as many businesses try to get forgivable loans to keep their employees at work, others are furloughing or laying off workers because unemployment benefits through July will be much more generous than whatever the business could pay.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 @ 7:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Prior to April 2019, Duke Energy had agreed with the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to close and excavate all but nine of its 31 coal-ash basins.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2020 @ 4:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Remarks by President Trump at the Economic Club of New York | New York, NY
Published: Saturday, November 16th, 2019 @ 3:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Wake County Republicans Call on Commissioners/Residents to Oppose County’s 10% Tax Increase
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2019 @ 10:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina needs to reform its approach to taxing capital gains. As I have noted in a previous analysis for the John Locke Foundation, the current system ignores the fundamental nature of capital gains taxes.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2019 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Possible GenX contamination in municipal water supplies is a reason cash-strapped municipalities have discussed merging public works systems with larger cities and counties
Published: Monday, November 26th, 2018 @ 2:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Monday, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of North Carolina announced it is requesting a decrease in rates for plans on the North Carolina Obamacare Exchange
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2018 @ 3:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners has managed recently to eclipse a long list of bad decisions.
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2018 @ 8:24 am
By: Hood Richardson
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State Rep. John Szoka, R-Cumberland, said if the utility companies building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline voluntarily contributed $57.8 million to the state as Gov. Roy Cooper claims, they better not try to recoup the money through rate increases tied to construction costs
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 1:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Passage of House Bill 589 this year brought major changes to energy policy in North Carolina
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2018 @ 6:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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