Broadway shows saw a 17% decrease in attendance for the 2022-23 season compared to 2018-19, the last full season before the COVID pandemic.
Published: Monday, February 26th, 2024 @ 9:37 am
By: Daily Wire
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Much is written about polarization in American life today. Examples of things that separate us – like the urban/rural divide and the college educated/ high school education divide.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 9:39 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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North Carolina’s urban counties are growing quickly, as is demand for new housing
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 1:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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White Suburban Women Swing Right After Republican Party Rebrands As 'Pumpkin Spice Republican Party'Despite suburban white women demurring from widespread Republican support in the 2020 election, new polling estimates a 25%+ increase in this key demographic's projected support for conservatives in the upcoming midterm elections.
Published: Friday, November 11th, 2022 @ 4:58 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Unsheltered homelessness is often thought of as a problem typical of big west coast cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, but North Carolinians are taking notice of a similar trend in their own backyards.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 1:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who served as former President Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development, blasted the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday, comparing the action to those of infamous communist tyrants Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 10:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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Political observers frequently describe North Carolina’s political leanings in terms of a rural-urban divide.
Published: Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 @ 2:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After video revealed over the weekend that Jacksonville Jaguar coach Urban Meyer attended a bar where a young woman gave him something approximating a lap dance, the owner of the team, Shad Khan, admonished him.
Published: Saturday, November 20th, 2021 @ 7:40 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer, 57, is going to have some explaining to do after a viral video surfaced of the married father and grandfather at a bar with a young woman grinding against him.
Published: Thursday, November 11th, 2021 @ 7:56 am
By: Daily Wire
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Given the freedom to choose whether to mandate masks for students, school boards across the state have begun voting to make face coverings optional for the coming school year.
Published: Sunday, August 8th, 2021 @ 1:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Sarah Westwood of the Washington Examiner documents one consequence of a shift in urban policing.
Published: Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 @ 12:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you think about regional differences in North Carolina politics, economics, or culture in terms of urban blue and rural red, you are missing a thick slice of the story: the suburbs.
Published: Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 @ 11:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In the Age of Covid, the 2020 CMA awards finally were aired in empty music halls all around Nashville, which much of the music presented, representing this New Country genre served up within these empty spaces, actually deserved.
Published: Monday, September 21st, 2020 @ 9:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Katherine Doyle of the Washington Examiner focuses on the potential electoral impact of recent street violence across the country.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 2:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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They could jump the fence on this one.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2020 @ 4:18 pm
By: LifeZette
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In 2012, 92 percent of North Carolina workers commuted to their place of employment by automobile. By 2018, that share had dipped to 90 percent.
Published: Monday, October 14th, 2019 @ 2:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Since 2006, 11 rural hospitals in North Carolina have closed — seven in the past six years, as more people move to cities and suburbs.
Published: Thursday, October 10th, 2019 @ 10:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As North Carolina's population ages, and demands for health care rise, nurses need the freedom to do more
Published: Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Donald J. Trump is encouraging investment to create opportunity in distressed communities.
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2018 @ 12:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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How should we respond to the urban-rural divide? The question has legions of politicians, scholars, journalists, and businesses scrambling for answers
Published: Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 @ 7:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Undoubtedly, we will continue to hear a lot about the growing urban-rural divide in North Carolina and across the nation. We’ve seen it continually in our electoral presidential vote maps for decades. It’s now reaching more of a breaking point culturally and politically
Published: Sunday, November 25th, 2018 @ 6:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Cooper joined HUD Secretary Ben Carson at a visit to the Hurricane Florence Joint Field Office (JFO) in Durham today
Published: Monday, October 15th, 2018 @ 5:13 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Want to know why conservatives are more skeptical than progressives of the idea of government confiscating more of our money to throw at social programs
Published: Friday, April 27th, 2018 @ 1:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, North Carolina Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr announced that North Carolina has been awarded an additional $189 million to go towards Hurricane Matthew recovery
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 @ 3:45 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Liberals like small homes that are close to shopping and attractions, while conservatives prefer to have larger properties and drive longer distances to the store
Published: Sunday, March 18th, 2018 @ 12:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Plan to join the region's most influential arts, business, government and community leaders to celebrate Greenville's center city
Published: Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 @ 1:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina is urbanizing - that much is certain. You can chart it in the economic data about population, income, and job creation
Published: Monday, October 10th, 2016 @ 9:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What happened to head of the FBI, James Comey? He was supposed to be this "pillar of integrity" and yet has now been cuckolded by the likes of Durbin, B.H. Obama, Loretta Lynch and other denizens of D.C.
Published: Friday, July 22nd, 2016 @ 4:11 am
By: John Pizzo
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Governor Pat McCrory has notified the state's seven Urban Search and Rescue Teams and seven hazardous materials Regional Response Teams to be on standby in preparation for severe weather that is predicted to roll across the state on Wednesday.
Published: Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 @ 12:19 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Commentators and academic analysts trying to make sense of North Carolina's fascinating and ever-changing politics have been arguing lately that the state is becoming increasingly urbanized - and that this trend portends significant shifts in voting behavior and electoral outcomes
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 5:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and Cultural Resources Secretary Susan Kluttz recently continued their tour throughout North Carolina to highlight the successful efforts to revitalize urban downtowns, main streets and rural communities through the historic tax credit program. As the tour continues across...
Published: Wednesday, March 18th, 2015 @ 9:15 pm
By: Chris Downey
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We are hearing a lot about bullying lately. Its in our schools. Its in our work places. Its on the roads.
Published: Monday, April 7th, 2014 @ 7:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Some left-wing commentators have speculated that a sizable number of public school teachers are leaving North Carolina to teach in states that are, presumably, more hospitable to the profession. They want the public to believe that policies instituted by Republican lawmakers are to blame. It is...
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2013 @ 6:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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