Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that InterFlex Acquisition Company, LLC will be expanding its operations in Wilkes County.
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 1:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that all of the state's 100 counties saw increases in visitor spending in 2012.
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 @ 6:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory is proclaiming May 4-12, 2013, as Tourism Week in North Carolina, joining destinations across the state to celebrate travel and tourism as a record-breaking industry that is vital to the economic stability and growth of the state.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 9:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Politicians LOVE to talk about -- and pat themselves on the back about -- job creation and economic development. Though, most rational people know the only sources for job creation are private businesses.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2013 @ 2:47 am
By: Brant Clifton
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I couldn't believe it when I read that the amount of money that tourists (or is it simply "visitors?) spend in North Carolina in general and Beaufort County in particular is determined through a mathematical model: A proprietary model that the developers refuse to share with anyone.
Published: Monday, December 10th, 2012 @ 1:14 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Beaufort County, long downgraded to a Tier I county, will be upgraded to a Tier II, but do not celebrate just yet.
Published: Friday, November 30th, 2012 @ 10:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina's entire "economic development policy" should be replaced with "economic growth policy."
Published: Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 @ 7:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Documents obtained by Carolina Journal show that a plan recently scrapped by the North Carolina Department of Commerce included a provision to pay Cary-based software developer SAS $1.5 million in federal funds meant to assist low- and moderate-income families.
Published: Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 @ 11:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percentage points in March to a seasonally adjusted rate of 9.7 percent as the number of unemployed fell and the number of people with jobs rose.
Published: Monday, April 23rd, 2012 @ 8:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two government-funded surveys of "green jobs" released in March show vastly different estimates for the number of green jobs in North Carolina, even though both studies were funded by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Published: Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 @ 11:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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