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Hog farming is an integral part of the agricultural industry in North Carolina, contributing $10 billion in economic output a year
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2024 @ 10:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently handed down a decision holding that the State of Colorado may not force a website developer to create websites for same-sex weddings
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 11:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Raleigh unwittingly welcomed criminality, and homicides, rapes, assaults, and property crimes have all increased
Published: Sunday, June 25th, 2023 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2022 a major report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine warned that enormous wind turbines severely affect the marine vessel radar (MVR) used for navigating waterways shared by commercial and recreational vessels as well as extremely large commercial shipping vessel
Published: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Massive "city" of enormous wind turbines would severely conflict with military training and operations
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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NC State researchers in 2016 found that 80 percent of North Carolina beachgoers would either not return to a beach rental if wind turbines were visible — or require an unreasonable discount for spoiled views
Published: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 3:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a recent post, I discussed the sudden war on gas-fired stoves and appliances being waged by environmental extremists in government, not just in the Biden administration but even in many cities and counties and some states, too.
Published: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A lack of police officers and an ineffective Democrat-led city council receiving much of the blame
Published: Friday, February 17th, 2023 @ 11:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For years we have been warning about the dangers of replacing readily available, highly efficient, working power plants with highly expensive, extremely unreliable “renewable” sources — solar and wind — that can produce power only when conditions allow and without respect for the needs of people.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 9:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A recent Civitas Poll of North Carolina parents found that most parents believe they are best able to determine how and where their child is educated.
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2022 @ 8:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While newly released data show four-year graduation rates for North Carolina public schools are comparable to pre-pandemic rates, there are deeper concerns about what knowledge and skills students have when they graduate and also about the persistence of racial achievement gaps
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 8:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The question isn’t whether a massive buildout of offshore wind capacity off North Carolina beaches would lead to fewer jobs and less economic growth than otherwise, but how extensive the losses would be
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 9:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Pres. Biden and Gov. Cooper tout government intervention to force offshore wind energy development off North Carolina beaches as a way to create jobs and grow the economy
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 2:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Fishing communities in every coastal state have tried to alert the Biden administration to offshore wind energy’s threat to their industry and marine habitats, biodiversity, and oceanography
Published: Monday, August 15th, 2022 @ 4:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The question of whether to ease credentialing requirements in North Carolina childcare centers continues to bubble up in meetings of the N.C. Childcare Commission.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2022 @ 4:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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There has been little examination of the extent of the impacts of “environmentally friendly” offshore wind development on affected marine ecologies, habitats, fisheries, and wildlife
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 4:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A member of the N.C. congressional delegation is co-sponsoring a bill to end federal regulators' use of the "social cost of carbon" estimate.
Published: Tuesday, July 26th, 2022 @ 1:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina has been cutting CO2 emissions this whole century without costly offshore wind energy being forced on electricity consumers
Published: Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 @ 1:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of Gov. Cooper’s reasons for seeking to build 8 GW of offshore wind near our beaches is to fight climate change by reducing North Carolina’s energy emissions
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 7:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Cooper’s desire for building 8 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind in North Carolina would have severe impacts on our electricity bills
Published: Monday, June 20th, 2022 @ 5:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over 40% of cases were to fully vaccinated individuals
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In my previous research brief, I noted how the General Assembly could use the findings of the plaintiffs’ expert witnesses to help them draw districts in compliance with the North Carolina Supreme Court’s February 4 ruling in North Carolina League of Conservation Voters v. Hall.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A research brief from curriculum publisher Amplify shows that elementary school students continue to lag behind in literacy almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 @ 10:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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My previous research brief discussed that last year Gov. Roy Cooper pledged over $1.3 billion in corporate welfare to just 58 corporations from state “economic development” incentives programs whose stated purposes are about “job creation.”
Published: Monday, January 24th, 2022 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rather than being a sign of gerrymandering, districts that wrap around cities indicate respect for municipal boundaries and communities of interest
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 4:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Joe Biden’s signature “ Build Back Broke” bill collects dust in the Senate, far-left Democrats are pivoting in a desperate ploy to pass “ literally anything” by attempting to eliminate the filibuster.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 3:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Thanks to a series of egregious policy blunders, crime has once again become a pressing issue in the United States.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 3:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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My recent research brief into the breakdown of new Covid-19 infections among those who are unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated, who are fully vaccinated, or who have had prior infections needed an appendix, unfortunately.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 7:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a previous research brief, I wrote about how existing nuclear power plants produce “zero emissions while at the same time being the most reliable and lowest-cost source of electricity.”
Published: Saturday, November 27th, 2021 @ 11:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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My research brief today answers nine questions about the remarkably “unremarkable” Certificate of Need (CON) law case just decided in the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Sunday, August 1st, 2021 @ 11:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the fall, many K-12 school districts made the difficult decision to move instruction online.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2021 @ 1:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Thousands of businesses across North Carolina have closed their doors with no hope of returning, even after the COVID-19 pandemic is over.
Published: Thursday, November 19th, 2020 @ 3:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the most contentious issues in the recent North Carolina state superintendent race was whether or not to allow schools to reopen across the state.
Published: Monday, November 16th, 2020 @ 4:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For almost a decade, North Carolina has benefited from the fiscal conservatism of our General Assembly.
Published: Friday, November 13th, 2020 @ 6:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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