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The Martin Center features Duke emeritus professor John Staddon’s open letter to the university’s president. Dear President Price: On June 17, you published a 1,400-word “Statement to the Community Regarding…
Interesting N&O article on Measurement Inc.’s proposal to pull its 21 parcels of downtown land out of Durham’s Business Improvement District (BID) and thus avoid paying the tax that fund…
The Herald-Sun had a story the other day about how the renovation of the American Tobacco Campus could not have been accomplished without historic tax credits. The officials interviewed for…
Two Durham city council members are expressing support for a tax hike dedicated to parks. For now, Mayor Bill Bell and other members are hesitant. Administrators modeled the penny-for-parks proposal…
Good news for those of us who understand that constructing a passenger light rail line in the Triangle is poor public policy. Rail is simply the wrong transportation policy for…
Durham wasted $70,000 in “incentive” dollars, earned by the hard work of Durham citizens and taken from them via the tax system, on a company that has now fled town…
A Charlotte Business Journal profile of John Locke Foundation founding chairman Art Pope quoted John Hood. (Depictions of Pope as a Machiavellian mastermind amuse those close to him. “I call…
On Jan. 11, Durham Mayor Bill Bell made a lot of sense when he called for higher bails for those committing gun crimes. I was pleased because this showed that…
No surprise that Bill Bell, the mayor of Durham, officially endorsed President Obama. Both Bell and Obama are liberal Democrats so it makes sense. Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane ran in…
Based on his comments, even liberal Durham Mayor Bill Bell seems to understand the negative impact of this new “business improvement district” tax — 7 cents on $100 valuation. His…
I blogged last week about how Gov. Bev Perdue and Durham Mayor Bill Bell were in Durham pushing kids to hop on the free-lunch bandwagon. I characterized it as the…
Gov. Bev Perdue and Durham Mayor Bill Bell joined with a couple of lefty nonprofits yesterday to encourage more kids and families to become dependent on government: The program, dubbed…