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Republican budget writers in the General Assembly are bristling after the judge in the long-running Leandro school funding case set an arbitrary deadline of Oct. 18 for lawmakers to fund the court-ordered plan.
Published: Monday, October 25th, 2021 @ 4:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Richard Weaver’s famous book “Ideas have Consequences” has a pithy and poignant title.
Published: Thursday, November 12th, 2020 @ 12:35 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Roy Cooper was recognized along with four other governors as a Moneyball for Government All Star for his commitment to results and data-driven processes for managing taxpayer dollars.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 @ 4:04 am
By: Governor's Office
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With each step of the budget process, the lines become clearer in the battle over the future of North Carolina for state employees, taxpayers, and citizens.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 5:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The $22.9 billion General Fund budget plan released Tuesday by Senate Republicans would increase spending over the two-year budget cycle by less than Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s plan would in its first year alone
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2017 @ 3:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Insider reported recently about a Fiscal Research Division analysis showing the Senate’s “Billion Dollar Middle Class Tax Cut” would lead to $600 million shortfalls in three of the next five years
Published: Monday, April 24th, 2017 @ 8:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the general election campaign begins in North Carolina, you can expect to hear a lot about Kansas
Published: Friday, June 24th, 2016 @ 6:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"My problem," the notoriously reckless actor Errol Flynn was once reported to have quipped, "lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."
Published: Tuesday, April 26th, 2016 @ 10:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Several of my recent columns have addressed the statistical basis of political disputes over education funding, the state budget, and declines in North Carolina’s unemployment rate.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 7:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since the end of the 2013 legislative session, I've had dozens of calls, emails, and Facebook messages from North Carolinians asking for help...
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 @ 9:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I noted a couple of days ago that North Carolina native Richard Weaver helped spark the modern conservative movement with his 1948 book Ideas Have Consequences.
Published: Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 @ 12:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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James A. “Art” Pope has resigned from the boards of the Civitas Institute and Civitas Action, Robert L. Luddy, chairman of both organizations, announced today.
Published: Friday, December 21st, 2012 @ 2:45 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I'm going to out on a limb here and predict that the legislature's new spending plan for 2012-13 will not result in the demise of public education, the collapse of North Carolina's economy, a plague of locusts, or the end of western civilization as we know it.
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2012 @ 2:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The first decade of the 21st Century for North Carolina was a difficult one. In terms of the state’s economic condition, many may label it a lost decade.
Published: Sunday, February 5th, 2012 @ 3:45 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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