Consumers are paying a lot more than they realize to prop up the renewable energy industry in North Carolina, even though a section of their bills supposedly lists the cost
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2017 @ 1:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrat candidate for North Carolina's 13th Congressional district, Bruce Davis, continues to praise Obamacare and bolster his support while premiums more than double and hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians are now without care
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 11:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) released the following statement on Hillary Clinton's campaign stop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Published: Thursday, October 27th, 2016 @ 9:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Following is part of an article series sent by incumbent Governor McCrory following Gubernatorial Debate on October 11 with Roy Cooper
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2016 @ 1:59 am
By: McCrory Communications
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In an interview this week with WGHP, Senator Burr laid out the clear difference between him and Deborah Ross when it comes to Obamacare.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2016 @ 1:48 pm
By: Russell Allen
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In the Tar Heel State, government mandates require that 12.5 percent of electricity must come from wind, solar, and other forms of renewable energy by 2021.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2016 @ 11:02 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory joined law enforcement and local elected officials, family members and friends for the promotion of 45 State Highway Patrol troopers in Raleigh today.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:23 am
By: McCrory Communications
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A new Civitas Poll of registered, unaffiliated North Carolina voters shows that an overwhelming majority of North Carolina Unaffiliated voters support an amendment to the North Carolina Constitution which would require a vote of two-thirds majority of both houses of the state legislature to...
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2015 @ 3:55 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Despite recent legislation easing some restrictions on the marketplace, North Carolina's rate-setting structure for car insurance is little more than a government price-fixing scheme that hits consumers in the wallet while protecting the profits of some insurance companies, a consumer advocate...
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 @ 1:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Higher education is often an ignored issue in presidential campaigns. The 2016 campaign, however, may be different.
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 12:52 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A report from a renewable energy industry group fails in its goal of deflecting attention away from costs generated by North Carolina's renewable energy mandate. That's the assessment of a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report...
Published: Saturday, June 20th, 2015 @ 4:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's rate-filing season for health insurance companies, and this week marked the deadline for carriers to disclose and explain any proposed rate increases of ten percent or more for 2016 Obamacare plans sold on the individual market. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina made the cut.
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2015 @ 8:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While Duke Energy is passing higher costs to ratepayers because state law forces it to purchase renewable energy, the utility also claimed a whopping $62.8 million in tax write-offs in 2014 for its own investments in green power projects.
Published: Thursday, June 11th, 2015 @ 3:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two of three drivers of higher electricity costs in North Carolina are renewable energy investments by utilities and the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards (REPS) mandate, according to a new report released by the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA).
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015 @ 11:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement after Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) announced that its customers covered under the President’s Affordable Care Act will face an average 25.7 percent premium rate increase next year.
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015 @ 10:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina has transformed from the Pepsi Generation to the Pepto population. In 1950, the median age in our state was 26.5 years. By 1981, it was almost 30 and the N.C. Division of Aging and Adult Services reports it as 36.9 years in 2009.
Published: Sunday, April 12th, 2015 @ 4:10 am
By: Tom Campbell
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It is an election year, and that means our televisions and radios are littered with campaign ads. Advertisements try to persuade you to vote for candidates based upon their morals, past experience, community involvement, and ability to influence or pass legislation. Or they attack with a sensational
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is an election year, and that means our televisions and radio are littered with campaign ads. Advertisements try to persuade you to vote for candidates based upon their morals, past experience, community involvement, and ability to influence or pass legislation.
Published: Monday, September 22nd, 2014 @ 10:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I know you've been there. It's time for supper and you have neither the time nor the supplies to cook. So you and your family members or friends all pile in to the car to head out to a restaurant.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 8:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The annual teacher turnover report produced by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction shows the number of public schoolteachers who've left their jobs across the state during the past year.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 2:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After Congress repealed in 1987 the federal mandate that states maintain a certificate-of-need program for health services, which had failed spectacularly to contain costs, 14 states opted to end their CON programs. North Carolina chose to remain a CON state.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) called for a prohibition on members of Congress using taxpayer money to purchase first class or premium airline tickets for themselves.
Published: Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 @ 5:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) issued the following response to the Obama administration's statement of opposition to S. 1926, the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014.
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 1:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina utility customers would face $100 million annual rate increases for 15 years if all renewable energy facilities now under consideration were online and complied fully with a 1978 federal law requiring utilities to buy electricity from those more expensive renewable sources, a...
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 @ 9:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal health care law known as Obamacare creates more problems for North Carolinians than just the faulty website that has generated recent headlines. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report documents key Obamacare flaws and offers alternatives for addressing health care needs.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal health care law known as Obamacare creates more problems for North Carolinians than just the faulty website that has generated recent headlines.
Published: Saturday, November 30th, 2013 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina officials are scrambling to determine the impacts of accepting President Obama's one-year delay in canceling policies that have been deemed illegal under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2013 @ 11:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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At the November 4, 2013 Beaufort County Commissioners' meeting William (Buzz) Cayton spoke during the Public Comment section of the agenda on how the board has gone about making a decision to build a new jail in the Chocowinity Industrial Park. You can listen to his comments below.
Published: Friday, November 15th, 2013 @ 9:10 am
By: Buzz Cayton
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We’re less than a week away from the launch of ObamaCare. Nancy Pelosi said that we needed to pass the bill, in order to find out what’s in it. As we get closer to implementation, we’re finding out the gory details
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2013 @ 12:37 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Air traffic controllers being furloughed. Parks being closed. Tax rate increases. White House tours being cancelled. But our government can STILL find the time AND money to peddle rock music to overseas consumers.
Published: Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 @ 4:28 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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An effort to allow auto insurance companies to set their own rates collided with opponents on Tuesday as the bill failed to muster enough votes to get out of committee.
Published: Friday, April 19th, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An effort to allow auto insurance companies to set their own rates collided with opponents on Tuesday as the bill failed to muster enough votes to get out of committee.
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2013 @ 1:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's auto insurance system imposes a special tax on all drivers that helps subsidize rates for high-risk drivers. That tax is part of a system designed to guarantee profits for insurers.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 11:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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NC 20 learned earlier today that NC Department of Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has reached a settlement agreement with the NC Rate Bureau on the Homeowners Insurance Rate Filing that was submitted in October 2012.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2013 @ 9:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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