While states consider enormously expensive plans to rework their entire electricity systems to cut CO2 emissions, energy-based emissions are still increasing across most of the world, especially China
Published: Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 @ 5:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Arctic Institute issued a call for researchers to submit papers for a series examining “heteronormativity” in the far northern portion of the planet.
Published: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 5:04 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A California bill would take the power to set their own curriculum away from local school districts and instead grant it to the state — and potentially steer profits to the wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Published: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 11:38 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a new report on Monday that recommends once again returning to the practice of social distancing and wearing masks.
Published: Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 @ 4:40 am
By: Daily Wire
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For years, liberal states in New England opposed gas pipelines in the name of combatting climate change, yet now that ideological opposition is coming back to haunt them as the region faces a fuel shortage months before cold weather even starts.
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2022 @ 12:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina’s economic health seems strong. Taxes are low, cost of living is below average, and a recent CNBC study gave the state a No. 2 ranking as “Best for Business” because of solid growth, quality workforce, business friendliness, and technology.
Published: Sunday, November 7th, 2021 @ 11:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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true conservatives are abandoning Boris Johnson
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 9:26 pm
By: John Steed
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission voted unanimously last week to recommend the state award a 10-year contract for warehouse services to LB&B Associates, the target of an audit in 2018 that has over the previous years cost the state about $13.5 million.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 12:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina won’t fully open anytime soon.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2021 @ 10:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Assigning infallibility to government action is a fool’s errand.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2021 @ 10:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In the latest move by a U.S. government agency to appease leftists, the State Department is quietly overhauling language used in agency materials that may be considered exclusionary or offensive.
Published: Saturday, July 25th, 2020 @ 11:58 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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Governor Cooper signed Executive Order No. 143 to help address the disproportionate impact that COVID-19 is having on communities of color.
Published: Saturday, June 6th, 2020 @ 12:46 am
By: Governor's Office
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As many predicted, the California-based consulting firm WestEd is recommending that North Carolina spend billions of taxpayer dollars on preschools and district schools to meet the requirements of the Leandro case.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2019 @ 9:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As many predicted, the California-based consulting firm WestEd is recommending North Carolina spend billions of taxpayer dollars on pre-schools and district schools to meet the requirements of the Leandro case.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2019 @ 7:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A long-anticipated report from an education consulting group suggests North Carolina should boost public school spending by at least $8 billion over the next eight years to satisfy its constitutional obligations.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2019 @ 8:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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During 2018, North Carolina lost some 338,000 private-sector jobs, or 9.1 percent of the total. Did you happen to notice this economic catastrophe?
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 @ 9:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler and department leaders wrongly spent $22,000 in travel expenses during the N.C. State Fair, a new audit report says.
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2019 @ 4:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers, after so many fits and starts, finally persuaded enough of their nervous colleagues to vote to begin fixing North Carolina’s archaic and broken system of governing alcohol, a move some 80 years in the making.
Published: Friday, July 19th, 2019 @ 11:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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To the ears of politically engaged North Carolinians, it may sound strange to hear claims that changes in partisan control don’t yield significant changes in state policy. But among scholars, this has been a widespread view for many decades.
Published: Monday, June 17th, 2019 @ 9:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state’s tax-supported managed care agencies for mental health are a mess.
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2019 @ 3:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If Medicaid expansion forces taxpayers to pick up the tab for a service that was either previously paid for some other way or not consumed in the first place, there is no reduction in the cost of care.
Published: Friday, April 5th, 2019 @ 1:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When the state decides to regulate an industry, it doesn't necessarily apply the same level of regulation it uses for other regulated industries.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2019 @ 3:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a safe bet that state Rep. Jonathan Jordan agrees with Republican colleagues Bill Brawley, Susan Martin, and Scott Stone much more often than he agrees with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the incoming New York congresswoman and newly elevated champion of the political left
Published: Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 @ 12:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An email to suppliers last week from the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission, in addition to announcing that it's trimming the number of products it lists, cited the state's alcohol warehouse operator for its good work
Published: Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 @ 4:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Head distiller Chris Jude steps through a door at the High Wire Distilling Co. in Charleston, South Carolina. Jude, who's from Boone, enters the tasting room and bar, making the short trip from the place spirits are made to the place spirits are served
Published: Tuesday, September 11th, 2018 @ 12:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission appears to operate with little, if any, oversight, aside from a board chairman and two - now one - commissioners, who are appointed by the governor
Published: Saturday, August 25th, 2018 @ 1:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A company cited for questionable contract dealings in a recent state audit of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission in 2015 paid a civil settlement of $7.8 million under federal allegations of fraud
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A prominent Republican lawmaker and proponent of loosening North Carolina's restrictive alcohol laws says direct government sales and distribution of distilled liquor is antiquated, and lawmakers should fix the broken system
Published: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018 @ 11:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nuclear power advocates are jumping on the climate change bandwagon. They are repackaging the industry as a clean energy alternative, and making a case for government subsidies
Published: Friday, May 11th, 2018 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday that North Carolina would join 13 states and Puerto Rico in the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition opposed to President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change
Published: Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 @ 3:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's no surprise that N.C. legislators might disagree about regulatory reforms that make substantive changes to state policies
Published: Wednesday, March 1st, 2017 @ 9:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Do governors and state legislators really have much to do with the performance of state economies
Published: Tuesday, February 14th, 2017 @ 2:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Timing matters, in both stand-up comedy and interpreting statistical trends
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2017 @ 7:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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