North Carolina maintains one of the nation's most restrictive versions of the Map Act, which can freeze property development within proposed road corridors for years. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report documents one Forsyth County case in which Map Act restrictions have limited private...
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory has ordered all North Carolina state flags on state facilities to be lowered to half staff in honor of Senator Martin Nesbitt of Buncombe County, who passed this evening.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 1:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Widespread, serious flaws in the state Department of Health and Human Services' long-suffering NCTracks Medicaid computer system might jeopardize more than $9 million in anticipated annual cost savings, according to a stinging state performance audit released late Monday afternoon.
Published: Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 @ 5:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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WRAL's Mark "Binky" Binker - Cagney to Laura Leslie's Lacey - has had the North Carolina political world atwitter over his reporting about DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos' recent appearance before a legislative committee.
Published: Thursday, October 17th, 2013 @ 2:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A new state audit slams a former child care provider for setting up a front company to avoid sanctions.
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2013 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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First-year students were encouraged Monday to expand their horizons and commit to their studies over the next four years at East Carolina University.
Published: Thursday, August 22nd, 2013 @ 12:57 am
By: ECU News Services
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Attorney General Roy Cooper's recent dog and pony show was an embarrassment to his office. Cooper had gotten wind that Senate budget writers were planning to transfer the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) from Cooper's control to the Department of Public Safety (DPS).
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013 @ 12:52 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Democratic lawmakers and left-leaning activists are advancing a meritless argument that unemployment benefits are an economic stimulus, critics say.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 5:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On the front page of the Sunday June 8, 2013 Washington Daily News was an article titled "SBI Move Concerns Local Officials". The Daily News has been supporting those good old boy Democrats during the past few days.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2013 @ 8:58 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Reform of a state agency many have heard of but most know little about, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), is one of the provisions drawing attention in a proposed state budget passed by the North Carolina Senate.
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2013 @ 8:26 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Let's count all of the various state law enforcement authorities we have here in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, February 21st, 2013 @ 1:06 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Over the past few days, three more suspicious Bath-area fires have been reported, raising the total number of suspected arsons in that area, since Feb. 22, to 10.
Published: Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 @ 1:06 pm
By: BCN
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Todd Austin Jarvis, age 26, of Elliott Road in Bath, faces charges relating to three of the fires in Bath and the fire in Washington County. He attributes his actions to emotional distress.
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2011 @ 8:34 pm
By: BCN
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Investigators do not believe the fire on VOA Road was set by the same suspect in the recent Pinetown and Bath arsons.
Published: Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 @ 11:48 am
By: BCN
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Additional information will be released when available.
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2011 @ 5:57 pm
By: BCN
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