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We should shun Amazon
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2021 @ 5:46 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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On Monday, the social media site Parler filed a lawsuit against Amazon, claiming that Amazon’s suspension of Parler violated antitrust laws and breached the contract between the two entities.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 @ 12:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Is Amazon, and other retailers, filling up our landfills with "returned" items?
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 @ 10:07 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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And they're made in ... China
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 @ 11:44 am
By: Daily Wire
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Tragedy struck on September 24, 2017 when 59-year-old Phillip “Lee” Terry, an Indianapolis Amazon worker, was crushed to death by a forklift while on the job.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 4:53 am
By: Daily Wire
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Would you pay for the experience of interviewing for a job that doesn’t exist? It appears some may, and such an experience can be yours for about $4,600.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 8:22 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A grown, fully-autonomous adult who has an unwanted same-sex attraction and who willingly seeks out information on how to curtail that desire without any outside pressure whatsoever will not be allowed to do so on Amazon's platform, which has now banned several books on therapy for such people.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2019 @ 9:42 pm
By: Daily Wire
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States and municipalities courting of large corporations such as Amazon and Apple has brought the folly of economic development tax incentives into the public awareness
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2018 @ 7:52 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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After more than a year dangling the carrot to Raleigh and other communities Amazon finally announced their choices for their HQ2 project. Once again Raleigh didn't win the proposed 50,000 jobs and $5 billion investment. Curiously, we can't find many really upset about it
Published: Sunday, November 25th, 2018 @ 8:08 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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On Tuesday, Amazon announced that it would split its much-ballyhooed HQ2 between two cities: New York and Crystal City, an area just outside Washington, D.C. New York is obviously heavy Democratic territory; the headquarters will be located in Queens.
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 @ 4:13 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A new study from the U.S. Navy says expanding the Amazon Wind Farm site near Elizabeth City, as the operator planned to do, may cause interference with the Navy's radar-tracking facility in southern Virginia
Published: Monday, September 24th, 2018 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Thursday night's show, Tucker Carlson of Fox News launched into a diatribe over the supposed injustices of Amazon's pay practices
Published: Monday, September 3rd, 2018 @ 9:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The incentives game just keeps getting worse. It used to be that state and local governments would put together a package to help lure a large company for a major project bringing significant numbers of new jobs to an area
Published: Monday, April 16th, 2018 @ 4:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After operating a little more than a year, the Amazon Wind Farm, North Carolina's only large-scale wind energy project, continues to cause concerns
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 2:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Thursday, President Trump attacked Amazon, a company he has long targeted thanks to its ownership by Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post
Published: Friday, March 30th, 2018 @ 4:24 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Does the money you earn from your labor belong to you? This question is important and draws a distinction between economic conservatives and progressives
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 4:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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If you think corporate incentives are only used to attract businesses, think again
Published: Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 @ 1:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the advantages of observing the many incentives being thrown at Amazon is that it highlights the absurdities of cronyism and government meddling in the market
Published: Tuesday, February 6th, 2018 @ 12:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina lawmakers and the business community have been watching Amazon's search for a second headquarters with bated breath
Published: Friday, January 19th, 2018 @ 3:03 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina, among many other states, are in a tizzy trying to land the reported “second headquarters” of Amazon
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2018 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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CNBC, the cable business news channel, predicts that North Carolina will be selected as the site for Amazon's second headquarters
Published: Friday, December 1st, 2017 @ 12:15 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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I've enjoyed following the drama surrounding location of Amazon's second headquarters and, make no mistake, drama it certainly has been
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 11:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper offered congratulations today to community leaders in four North Carolina locations that have worked intensely within their regions to offer Amazon a variety of powerful choices for the company's second headquarters site
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2017 @ 11:16 am
By: Governor's Office
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Most cities of any size are salivating at the opportunity to land the big Amazon fish, including several in North Carolina angling to win the trophy
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 @ 6:12 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Earlier this month Amazon announced it was looking for a second headquarters in North America
Published: Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 @ 4:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Charlotte and the Research Triangle Park are joining the growing number of candidates submitting proposals for Amazon’s second headquarters
Published: Friday, September 15th, 2017 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The controversy over the possible impact of wind energy turbines on military base operations has not blown over, even though none of the relevant bills met the April 27 legislative crossover deadline
Published: Tuesday, May 9th, 2017 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wind-energy developers routinely deceive the public, a longtime critic of the industry told Carolina Journal. And the sales pitch surrounding the Amazon Wind Farm near Elizabeth City continues spreading those deceptions
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2017 @ 4:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The facility now known as the Amazon Wind Farm was approved by state regulators after they were told it would provide part of the electric power necessary for the state to satisfy renewable energy mandates passed in 2007 by the General Assembly
Published: Friday, April 7th, 2017 @ 4:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The chairman of the N.C. Military Affairs Commission refused to allow a presentation at an open committee meeting Tuesday because a Carolina Journal reporter was in attendance
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2017 @ 7:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's legislative leaders want the incoming Trump administration to consider shutting down the $400 million, 104-turbine Amazon Wind Farm project under construction near Elizabeth City because, they say, the massive turbines would interfere with a nearby radar facility run by the military
Published: Thursday, January 19th, 2017 @ 2:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This morning, the Editorial Board of the News & Observer condemned a lawsuit brought by the Civitas Institute Center for Law and Freedom (CLF) on behalf of two individuals as “suspicious” and nothing more than “political interference.”
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 1:01 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Despite earlier claims by Iberdrola Renewables officials that the $400 million, 300-megawatt Amazon Wind Farm that will cover 22 acres near Elizabeth City would be built totally from company funds, another Iberdrola official says the project requires some tax incentives to be viable economically.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 9:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is once again overstepping its bounds. Recent news reports suggest that the FTC will soon file a formal antitrust case against Google.
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 @ 8:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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