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It’s budget season for North Carolina’s local governments, and some officials are taking the opportunity to propose tax increases yet again.
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2022 @ 12:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beaufort County Government raises money by taxation to provide government for the People of our community. Your local government raises that money through a statutory provision known as the Machinery Act, which gives your government the Police Power to annually take your property.`
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2022 @ 8:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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During the Covid pandemic, government concocted many costly, “temporary” policies
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 @ 8:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Guilford County has a 1.7 billion dollar school bond referendum on their upcoming primary ballots. There is now a complaint that the county government has been involved in violating state election laws
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 10:26 am
By: Governor's Office
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Economic equality is an unattainable goal – and that’s the point.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 10:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In its first official act, the new DHS Government Disinformation Board ruled today that all criticism of the Government Disinformation Board is disinformation.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 5:09 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Additional Seven Counties, 15 Towns Could be Designated as Distressed
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 4:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Charlotte, Asheville Airports' Requests for $900 Million in Project Financing Approved
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2022 @ 8:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Secretive government contractor
Published: Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 @ 12:50 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Florida’s Republican-led House voted on Thursday to eliminate a special taxing district that allows Walt Disney Co. to govern the land where its theme park is located.
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2022 @ 12:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A win for Gov. Ron DeSantis
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2022 @ 6:38 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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There are two reasons a corporation would take government incentives to move into North Carolina:
Published: Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 @ 8:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Past time govt's have stolen retirement accounts
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2022 @ 6:43 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Local Government Commission to Vote On Other Infrastructure, Building Projects
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 @ 1:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill this week banning the federal government from being able to buy crack pipes, and appear to have taken a shot at Democrat President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, who was an admitted crack addict, with the name the bill was given.
Published: Sunday, April 3rd, 2022 @ 8:16 am
By: Daily Wire
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A newly revealed classified U.S. Military report on UFOs shines some more light on what the U.S. government knows about the matter after the subject garnered significant national interest last summer following the government’s release of a report
Published: Friday, March 25th, 2022 @ 3:14 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Last week Congress passed H.R. 2471, a $1.5 trillion spending omnibus package to fund the government through September. It was loaded with earmarks costing $9.7 billion.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 10:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Honor Bestowed for Transparency in Providing Information Exposing Fraud in State's HOPE Program
Published: Sunday, March 20th, 2022 @ 11:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new meta-analysis from Johns Hopkins University shows that government-mandated lockdowns in America and Europe during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic only reduced the death rate by 0.2%, on average.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2022 @ 8:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has ruled, 4-2, that 220,000 state government retirees had a contractual right to premium-free health care benefits that had been promised to them. Now a trial court will have to determine whether state changes to those benefits a decade ago violated the contract.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 @ 2:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The federal government allocated $2.14 million to “root” out alleged oppression in… plant sciences.
Published: Sunday, March 13th, 2022 @ 8:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Governor Roy Cooper today shared a list of state government support resources for military service members and their families as military personnel based in North Carolina are deployed due to Russia’s unjustified attack on Ukraine.
Published: Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 @ 5:37 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners will meet in regular session on Monday, March 7, 2021 at 5:30 PM in the boardroom located at 136 W. 2nd Street, Washington, NC.
Published: Monday, March 7th, 2022 @ 12:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A race-based training program used by federal agencies claims, among other things, that saying one is “colorblind” to race is itself racist.
Published: Saturday, March 5th, 2022 @ 7:48 am
By: Daily Wire
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The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared that in a mere 18 years [exactly 18], all life on earth will be devastated by 127 [exactly 127] forms of "potentially irreversible" destruction.
Published: Friday, March 4th, 2022 @ 8:09 am
By: Guy Miller
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Affordable Housing, Municipal Projects Totaling Over $1 Billion Get Green Light
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 9:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Recently the John Locke Foundation team met with candidates running for local office. We highlighted critical principles for local government’s fiscal health and sustainability.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ukrainian government websites down in possible cyber-attack.
Published: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 10:52 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Work gives purpose, creates abundance, instills pride and responsibility, and promotes the economic growth that we see today.
Published: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 11:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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