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Press Releases: 2012

  • Press Release

    Climate expert debunks gloom-and-doom predictions for N.C. sea levels

    posted September 25, 2012
    RALEIGH — If predictions of more than three feet of rising sea levels by 2100 have you ready to flee from your beach house, a leading climate scientist might be…
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    John Locke Foundation experts available to discuss issues of N.C. interest

    posted September 16, 2012
    RALEIGH — From budgets and taxes to education and regulation, most of North Carolina’s important public policy debates could benefit from input that features a free-market, limited-government perspective. John Locke…
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    Flex growth offers smarter options for N.C. state, local governments

    posted September 11, 2012
    RALEIGH — A system based on “flex growth” makes more sense than so-called “smart growth” as North Carolina and its local governments set their development and transportation policies. That’s the…
  • Press Release

    North Carolina should scrap its failed Amazon tax

    posted August 26, 2012
    Click here to view and here to listen to Fergus Hodgson discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina’s so-called “Amazon tax” fails on all counts and deserves…
  • Press Release

    N.C. film incentives help favored groups, keep taxes higher for others

    posted July 17, 2012
    Click here to view and here to listen to Jon Sanders discussing the first two reports in the Carolina Cronyism series. RALEIGH — Less than a month after…
  • Press Release

    JLF’s Agenda 2012 promotes policies that advance liberty, protect taxpayers

    posted July 10, 2012
    Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Roy Cordato discussing Agenda 2012. RALEIGH — North Carolina’s next set of elected leaders can boost taxpayers’ job…
  • Press Release

    Data rebut wild claims about school choice’s impact on traditional options

    posted July 9, 2012
    Click here to view and here to listen to Terry Stoops discussing this Policy Report. RALEIGH — Net growth in the percentage of North Carolina students attending schools…
  • Press Release

    JLF president’s new book urges N.C. to put ‘Our Best Foot Forward’

    posted June 6, 2012
    Click here to view and here to listen to John Hood discussing his new book. RALEIGH — If North Carolina were a separate country, its economy would be…
  • Press Release

    No-tax-hike House budget keeps more money in taxpayers’ hands

    posted May 28, 2012
    RALEIGH — North Carolina taxpayers struggling with a sluggish economy would not have to worry about new taxes or fees under the 2012-13 state budget plan moving through the N.C.
  • Press Release

    N.C. should shift most 16-year-old criminal offenders to juvenile justice system

    posted May 16, 2012
    RALEIGH — North Carolina should consider joining almost every other state in making the juvenile justice system the default destination for 16-year-olds charged with crimes. That’s the conclusion two Texas-based…
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