It wouldn't make much sense to buy beer for alcoholics in an effort to reduce alcoholism. So why is the state using tax dollars to mail garbage to suspected litterers?
Published: Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 @ 8:08 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services continues the successful roll out of Crossroads, an IT system that is improving the way WIC benefits are delivered.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 9:46 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Last year Gov. Pat McCrory and the General Assembly managed to accomplish something that many longtime legislative observers thought was highly improbable if not impossible: a substantial rewrite of North Carolina's system for funding roads, bridges, and other transportation infrastructure.
Published: Saturday, May 3rd, 2014 @ 2:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A committee is quietly working away on a draft of the North Carolina Republican Party's 2014 platform.
Published: Sunday, April 13th, 2014 @ 11:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We’re getting a lot of propaganda about the importance of beating Democrats this year. But HOW do you sell that idea when you have some Republicans who are as into statism as the Democrats are?
Published: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 @ 3:13 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We got hit with headlines this week suggesting that roadwork across the state could grind to a halt very soon -- thanks to the Federal Highway Trust Fund running out of money
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 12:37 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I wrote an article about ferry tolling last week. That article talked about current events. The issue of a major policy change in funding transportation has been around since at least 2007.
Published: Wednesday, March 5th, 2014 @ 3:34 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Why release hypothetical November matchup results when filing hasn't started and we still have a May primary election?
Published: Friday, February 14th, 2014 @ 11:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Traffic jams happen when too many cars try to traverse too little roadway. Thus there are two main ways to reduce the number of traffic jams. One is to reduce the number of cars trying to travel the same road at the same time. The other is to increase the road capacity that cars can travel.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 6:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Don't look now, but North Carolina's long-maligned highway system is showing signs of significant improvement.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Don't look now, but North Carolina's long-maligned highway system is showing signs of significant improvement.
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 1:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Adelaide Houston DeRosa, 82, of New Bern, passed away on Sunday, June 30, 2013. Mrs. DeRosa was born on Oct. 21, 1930 in Pantego, NC, the daughter of Laird and Nora Houston. She was a graduate of New Bern High School, class of 1949, and of Craven Community College.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 @ 1:45 pm
By: Announcements
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This was supposed to be a great weekend for Thom Tillis. He's presiding over the state House at a historic time for the NCGOP. The state GOP convention was in his neck of the woods.
Published: Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 @ 8:55 am
By: Brant Clifton
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What's this about Republicans trying to raise taxes, ah, make that tolls?
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2013 @ 5:57 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Big Barry in DC and Speaker Thom are getting a real taste of what Tricky Dick Nixon went through in 1974. * It sure blows when people start raising a stink about your heavy-handed iron-fisted management style.*
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013 @ 11:34 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Guess what? Evidence is suggesting that toll road projects - like the one proposed for I-77 in Mecklenburg County - may not be the budgetary magic bullet that the state bureaucracy is hoping for. ABC NewsChannel 11 has the story.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina legislators seriously talked up tolls on I-95 in 2011 and 2012, but that idea got shot down by Renee Ellmers, Mike McIntyre, a number of legislators with districts along the interstate thoroughfare, and a huge outcry from the citizenry.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 5:57 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Jonathan Worth served as general superintendent of the Fayetteville and Western Plank road beginning in 1856.
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 @ 9:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The "good roads" state is quickly turning into the "traffic congestion" state. Both rural and urban interstates are poorly maintained and congested.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 3:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A battle simmering between landowners and deer hunters who use dogs shows no signs of easing. Landowners believe that deer-dog hunters are infringing on their property rights because they have little recourse if hunters let dogs run loose on their land.
Published: Friday, June 29th, 2012 @ 12:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There's a bipartisan move afoot to cap North Carolina's tax on motor fuels at 37.5 cents a gallon this year, along with some political discussion about cutting the gas tax further in future years.
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2012 @ 10:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public Hearing on ferry tolls to be held on Monday, March 19, 2012 at 7:00 pm Auditorium, Pamlico Community College 5049 Highway 306 South Grantsboro, NC 28529 (in Pamlico County, NC)
Published: Saturday, March 17th, 2012 @ 8:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Your calls and emails are helping!
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2012 @ 2:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Interesting things going on in North Carolina about transportation. We now have toll roads and ferry fees.
Published: Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 @ 7:33 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The City of Washington Administrative Offices will delay opening until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, due to expected poor driving conditions in the early morning.
Published: Monday, January 10th, 2011 @ 7:34 pm
By: BCN
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