Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Michael Sanera discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Rocky Mount totaled about $1,581 per person in the 2010 budget year. The city ranked No. 22 out of North Carolina’s 34 largest ranked cities in local government costs per person, according to...
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Michael Sanera discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in New Bern totaled about $1,577 per person in the 2010 budget year, and the city maintained its No. 23 spot on a list ranking North Carolina’s largest cities based on their per-person local...
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Michael Sanera discussing this Policy Report. RALEIGH — Wake County commissioners should be wary of their environmental sustainability task force’s final report. A John Locke Foundation expert who served on the task force says the report relies on a flawed decision-making process, bad assumptions, and...
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Michael Sanera discussing this Regional Brief. RALEIGH — The Raleigh Convention Center continues to rely on deep discounts to get business — knocking $569,000 off the room prices for meetings scheduled over the last six months of 2011. A new John Locke Foundation Regional Brief...
RALEIGH — Wake County’s transit plan is neither technically nor financially feasible, and it’s unreliable as the basis for decisions regarding transit investment in Wake County. A new John Locke Foundation Policy Report reaches that conclusion. JLF is touting the report as Federal Transit Administrator Kenneth Rogoff tours proposed transit lines today in the Triangle....
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Terry Stoops discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — International comparisons show North Carolina public school students struggle to match the performance of economic competitors around the globe, despite spending levels that rank among the highest in the world. The John Locke Foundation’s top education expert...
Click here to view and here to listen to Daren Bakst discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina should do more than make a one-time cash payment to living victims of the state’s forced sterilization program. That’s the assessment of the John Locke Foundation’s top legal expert. He recommends lifetime tax breaks, special license...
Click here to view and here to listen to Fergus Hodgson discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina could reverse its unemployment insurance deficit and repay its $2.6 billion trust fund debt by aligning its benefits and eligibility period more closely to those in neighboring states. Those changes would also limit future tax increases,...
RALEIGH — The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on “one of the most important legal challenges to congressional power” when it considers the legal challenges to ObamaCare. That’s the assessment of the John Locke Foundation’s top legal expert. The high court announced its plans this morning to address cases involving the 2010 federal health care...
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Michael Sanera discussing this Regional Brief. RALEIGH — County governments across North Carolina should have an easier time sharing information about their privatization efforts, thanks to a first-of-its-kind survey from the John Locke Foundation. “Privatizing county services is just one way county elected and administrative...
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Roy Cordato discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina should scrap its “hidden, dishonest, deceptive” corporate income tax. That’s the conclusion of a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report. “State lawmakers have talked about reforming the corporate income tax and lowering its rate, but...
RALEIGH — After raising property taxes by $1 million and increasing county revenues by $1.7 million between 2009 and 2010, Montgomery County commissioners are asking voters to dip into their pockets again for another $250,000 sales-tax increase. A new John Locke Foundation Regional Brief questions that plan. Montgomery County voters will decide Nov. 8 whether...