North Carolina could be home to one of the largest hospital behemoths in the nation if UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System finalize their partnership agreement. On a combined $14 billion operating budget, the two systems manage 50 hospitals and employ 90,000 people.
Published: Tuesday, February 6th, 2018 @ 3:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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University of North Carolina leaders aren't sure whether a partnership between UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System would help - or hurt - North Carolinians, UNC President Margaret Spellings said Friday
Published: Monday, January 29th, 2018 @ 12:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Federal regulators are getting increasingly uneasy with proposals such as a partnership involving UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 @ 11:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory joined members of the North Carolina National Guard, military and veterans for the Carolinas Freedom Foundation Breakfast this morning...
Published: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 @ 1:34 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has created an Ebola web page that provides information for the public and healthcare providers, updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fact sheets and a list of FAQs.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 6:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Within hours of the announcement last week that two Charlotte-based companies, LPL Financial and The Lash Group, would relocate thousands of jobs across the border to South Carolina, political and civic leaders in Charlotte and Raleigh began pushing the panic button on business incentives...
Published: Saturday, July 5th, 2014 @ 1:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ginger Shannon (Hodges) Finney, 74 of Seven Lakes, passed on Friday May 16, 2014 at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 5:17 pm
By: Announcements
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As Democrats and Republicans debated North Carolina's recently approved state budget, they devoted much of their attention to the income statement of...
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 @ 8:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The terms "voter suppression" and "outrageous" were bandied about during the recent debate over North Carolina's voter ID and election law reforms.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 @ 12:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Capital punishment - or the death penalty - originates from the Latin word capitalis, which literally translates to "regarding the head," referencing how capital crimes were originally punished by the severing of the head.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2013 @ 9:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's tax reform package, cutting the personal income tax rate, is the most significant plan likely to be approved in 2013, an analyst with...
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 @ 9:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In Raleigh, the conservatives are confidently progressive and the progressives are desperately conservative. The modern-day conservatives who inhabit the General Assembly, the executive branch...
Published: Monday, July 1st, 2013 @ 1:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Life, the old saying goes, is best thought of as a journey, not a destination. When it comes to reforming North Carolina's tax code, however, I'd say the reverse...
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2013 @ 11:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In state politics, most people cite the unemployment rate as a proxy for the performance of North Carolina's economy. They also tend to describe...
Published: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In recent months, state education officials and public school advocacy groups have continued to demand that state legislators pony up...
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2013 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One stark difference between the GOP Senate budget plan and the one proposed by Republican Gov. Pat McCrory is money to compensate victims of North Carolina's eugenics program.
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013 @ 1:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, I assessed the tax reform plan offered by Senate leader Phil Berger and his colleagues. While crediting the Senate plan for setting the proper goals...
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2013 @ 12:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For months, North Carolina's political establishment has been lying in wait for the state's new Republican leaders to act on their long-promised initiative...
Published: Friday, May 10th, 2013 @ 9:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Local media consumers may have picked up a bit of trivia lately: North Carolina's new governor isn't a Democrat. This break from The Way Things Are Done 'Round Here has led to...
Published: Friday, April 26th, 2013 @ 3:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For a group of people who claim to believe in empirical study and higher learning, liberal politicians and other critics of North Carolina's new...
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2013 @ 8:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the spirit of keeping things simple, the case for reforming North Carolina's medical-assistance programs can be expressed in four numbers: 12, 15, 17, and 48.
Published: Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 @ 2:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's auto insurance system imposes a special tax on all drivers that helps subsidize rates for high-risk drivers. That tax is part of a system designed to guarantee profits for insurers.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 11:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are many unknowns regarding the proposal Gov. Pat McCrory announced last week to use competitive contracting to reform North Carolina's Medicaid program.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 6:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Several years ago, Scott Ralls determined that there were serious problems with the way North Carolina's community colleges were handling remediation. To Ralls, who is president of the...
Published: Friday, April 5th, 2013 @ 11:39 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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A bill currently before the state House, H.B. 298, introduced by Rep. Mike Hager, would eliminate North Carolina's renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS) -- a state mandate that requires electric utilities to provide 7.5 percent of their power from renewable energy sources...
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 9:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Any plan for rejuvenating North Carolina's economy by drawing down and spending more federal money is a plan for failure.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 5:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some Triangle politicians continue to push for a new taxpayer-funded regional passenger rail system. Adrian Moore, vice president for policy at the Reason Foundation, says passenger rail makes no sense for most American communities, including North Carolina's Triangle region.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2013 @ 12:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Has North Carolina's economy turned the corner? It depends on how you define "turn the corner." And it depends on what measure you choose.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 8:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I've previously discussed, one key issue in the recent debate over expanding North Carolina's Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act involved estimating how many new Medicaid enrollees would truly have been uninsured without it.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 3:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If your tenure in our state stretches back no further than the early 1980s, you may not be aware of the fact North Carolina's license plates used to say "First in Freedom" rather than "First in Flight."
Published: Thursday, January 31st, 2013 @ 1:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Known as the home of to R. J. Reynolds Tobacco, Wake Forest University, and the Moravian settlement of the Carolinas, Forsyth County was annexed from Stokes County in 1849 and was named for a War of 1812 colonel, Benjamin Forsyth.
Published: Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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