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Raleigh officials got most of the money they wanted for the estimated $73 million Union Station upgrade. In late September, the city secured an extra $15 million in federal funds, bringing to $66.25 million the amount of federal, state, and local funding committed to the proposed transit hub. But...
Published: Monday, October 21st, 2013 @ 7:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you see obese children and don't wince at what it means for their physical and emotional health, you don't have a heart. But the Left believes you and I should feel much more than concern. The Left thinks you and I are responsible for these kids.
Published: Wednesday, September 11th, 2013 @ 3:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Institute of Medicine's Task Force on Early Childhood Obesity Prevention, which has spent the last two years brainstorming new policy ideas to decrease obesity in children, soon may go beyond school cafeterias and private child care facilities and take its programs right...
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 @ 3:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina psychologist John Rosemond's popular parenting advice column has been syndicated in more than 200 newspapers across the country since 1976, but soon it may disappear from all newspapers in the state of Kentucky.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2013 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals June 27 reversed a trial judge's decision to dismiss Charlotte-area "paleo diet" blogger Steve Cooksey's free speech case.
Published: Monday, July 1st, 2013 @ 1:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If the University of North Carolina can't protect its students from violent crime, at least it should let students protect themselves
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 1:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When Arthur Gordon came across an abandoned, dilapidated house on two acres of overgrown land three miles from his popular downtown Raleigh
Published: Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 @ 1:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers are ready to capitalize on what some are calling the "natural gas boom." A bill lifting the state's moratorium on fracking -- a method for releasing natural gas that environmentalists feel is controversial...
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2013 @ 1:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Selling unpasteurized milk has been illegal in North Carolina for three decades. But that hasn't stopped growing numbers of families around the state from going to extreme lengths to obtain it.
Published: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As state lawmakers made their way back to work Jan. 9, they faced nearly 200 protesters on the lawn in front of the General Assembly building.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 @ 11:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Three Democratic members of the North Carolina congressional delegation have joined President Obama in calling for more gun control as a means of preventing a mass shooting like the one Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
Published: Thursday, December 27th, 2012 @ 8:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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UNC Healthcare CEO Dr. Bill Roper educated state legislators Dec. 11 about what he called five "myths" of health care at a Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services meeting held to discuss the future of health care.
Published: Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 @ 4:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Five months after state lawmakers passed a law freeing food truck owners from a regulation that required them to rent space in a restaurant or commissary, no food truck operator has taken advantage of it.
Published: Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 @ 5:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Leaders in the North Carolina Republican Party are doing all they can to help Chad Barefoot get elected to the Senate District 18 seat as part of a larger effort to expand their new majority and advance their agenda.
Published: Thursday, November 1st, 2012 @ 1:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Much of Democratic state Senate District 9 candidate Deborah Butler's campaign against freshman Republican Sen. Thom Goolsby has focused on a piece of anti-abortion legislation he supported, even though both candidates say their primary goal is job creation.
Published: Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 @ 1:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since Raleigh legalized food trucks a year ago, 18 have been permitted to operate in 11 locations. After receiving only positive feedback about the roaming restaurants, city council now is considering opening up a few more places for them to park.
Published: Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 @ 6:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Paleo-diet blogger Steve Cooksey is not the only one who's been censored by the North Carolina Board of Nutrition/Dietetics.
Published: Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 @ 7:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A federal judge has thrown out Paleo-diet blogger Steve Cooksey's lawsuit against the North Carolina state agency he claims censored his blog and violated his freedom of speech.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 1:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The redistricting plan adopted last year by the General Assembly morphed the boundaries of the 13th U.S. Congressional District so much that its own congressman chose not to seek re-election.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 9:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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New York Times readers learned in early August of Steve Cooksey, the Charlotte-area "diabetes warrior," who has sued the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition because it has tried to censor Cooksey's blog touting the health benefits of the low-carb, high-protein "paleo" diet.
Published: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012 @ 3:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new law just cut through a chain that has stopped countless food trucks in North Carolina from getting out of the garage.
Published: Monday, September 10th, 2012 @ 1:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A federal judge said a Charlotte-area man advocating a Paleolithic or "caveman" diet on his blog is "unlikely to succeed" in his claim that the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition has violated his freedom of speech.
Published: Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 @ 4:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The friendliest city to food trucks in North Carolina may kick food trucks off its streets, or at least streets where there are restaurants nearby.
Published: Friday, July 20th, 2012 @ 7:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is $37.6 billion short of the money it needs to pay its long-term bills, according to a June 25 report by the Institute for Truth in Accounting.
Published: Friday, July 13th, 2012 @ 8:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Newly created Bear Grass Charter School planned to open its doors this August in an abandoned high school building, but the Martin County Board of Education said the building is not for sale or rent.
Published: Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 @ 9:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Conservative John Tedesco's fight to end forced busing as a member of the Wake County school board made national news.
Published: Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 @ 11:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina ranks 29th of the 50 U.S. states (plus the District of Columbia) when it comes to imposing laws requiring people wishing to perform certain occupations to get a license from the government, according to a new study by Institute for Justice.
Published: Monday, June 18th, 2012 @ 1:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a formal agreement brokered by state lawmakers, in late May WakeMed Health and Hospitals withdrew its offer to purchase Rex Healthcare in exchange for Rex's parent organization - UNC Health Care - carrying a larger share of charity care in Wake County.
Published: Friday, June 15th, 2012 @ 9:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In North Carolina, it is illegal to give one-on-one dietary advice without a license. The libertarian public interest law firm Institute for Justice yesterday filed a lawsuit challenging that law.
Published: Thursday, May 31st, 2012 @ 11:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Red-shirted property owners flooded the General Assembly yesterday, as they did about a year ago, to put pressure on lawmakers voting on historic annexation reform.
Published: Saturday, May 26th, 2012 @ 3:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In what some are calling "punishment" to the cities that sued over annexation reform legislation passed last year, state lawmakers have rewritten the law so that it is even more unfavorable to cities wishing to engage in involuntary annexation.
Published: Saturday, May 19th, 2012 @ 11:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After North Carolina's primary elections May 8, it still is unclear who the Republican nominees for five powerful executive offices will be.
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2012 @ 12:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition has closed an investigation of a blogger it had accused of "practicing nutrition" without a license. The April 9 decision came five days after Carolina Journal inquired about the complaint.
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2012 @ 4:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is threatening to send a blogger to jail for recounting publicly his battle against diabetes and encouraging others to follow his lifestyle.
Published: Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 @ 4:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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