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Apple surprised the business world Thursday with an announcement it was investing $1 billion in a new campus in Austin, Texas. The announcement also included news of new sites in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City, California, and expansions in Pittsburgh, New York, and Boulder, Colorado.
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2018 @ 4:09 am
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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Carolina Journal reports that while the 2020 Republican National Convention in Charlotte would gain international attention and could boost the city's profile in intangible ways, it's unlikely it would "provide a major economic boost to the city."
Published: Friday, July 27th, 2018 @ 1:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine you are a middle school student called on stage in front of 75 of your friends and peers
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2018 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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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In the late 1970s, I was appointed to the Economic Development Board
Published: Sunday, May 7th, 2017 @ 9:09 am
By: Tom Campbell
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In an article from WRAL.com lamenting the fact that economic development grants made by the state of North Carolina did not "create" as many jobs as originally intended, John Skvarla, North Carolina's Commerce Secretary and number 1 cheerleader for taxpayer funded business incentives, stated that...
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 2:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The common complaint about economic incentives is that they amount to having the government pick winners and losers. That's certainly true. However, as recent events in Charlotte show, another problem with incentives is that government handouts can go to winners and losers.
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 12:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While Gov. Pat McCrory says he won’t call the General Assembly back into session to push through an economic incentives package, he left the door open for calling lawmakers back to Raleigh if a big deal breaks.
Published: Monday, September 22nd, 2014 @ 6:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Twenty-eight House Republicans bolted party ranks Tuesday, joining 26 Democrats to defeat an economic incentives program that some labeled "corporate welfare."
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 9:11 am
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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That's how newly elected Governor Pat McCrory described his first state budget proposal at a press conference Wednesday morning.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 11:10 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Still puzzled about how North Carolina can rank so highly on some national measures of business climate, and still have among the worst-performing economies in the country?
Published: Friday, July 27th, 2012 @ 9:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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