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Helping Service Members in Crisis: Veterans Life Center
The military life is regimented. You are told what to do and when to do it. You are instructed where to live and for how long. From the service member’s…
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Cooper’s reckless budget, Part 3: Four good ideas and a terrible one
The governor's proposal includes a few spending priorities worth highlighting for further consideration. So it's not all reckless, but Cooper's $4.7 billion bond proposal sure is.
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Chapel Hill, Durham & Cary In Top 10 For N.C. Local Tax Burdens
Triangle residents endure some of the highest local tax burdens in North Carolina. From today’s news release from the John Locke Foundation about the new “By The Numbers” report on…
Chapel Hill, Durham, and Cary in top 10 for N.C. local tax burdens
RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees topped $2,315 per person in Chapel Hill during the 2012 budget year, as the Orange County town dropped from No. 2 to No. 3…
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Chapel Hill ranks No. 2, Durham, Cary, Raleigh in top 10 for N.C. local tax burdens
The new JLF report, By The Numbers: What Government Costs in North Carolina Cities and Counties FY 2011, uses the most recent data available from the State Treasurer, Bureau of…
Chapel Hill ranks No. 2, Durham, Cary, Raleigh in top 10 for N.C. local tax burdens
Click here to view and here to listen to Michael Lowrey discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees topped $2,303 per person in Chapel Hill during the 2011…
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Wonder who Wendell Williamson voted for?
CJ’s Don Carrington reports the infamous Chapel Hill shooter— found not guilty by reason of insanity for two murders and now housed at Butner’s Central Regional Hospital—cast an absentee ballot…
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It’s official: No mental hospital in HP
Pretty much a foregone conclusion, but Florida-based GEO Care has officially announced it not pursue a forensics mental hospital in High Point. The state initially has turned down GEO’s bid…
Chapel Hill, Raleigh climb multiple spots in JLF tax burden list
Click here to view and here to listen to Joseph Coletti discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees topped $2,275 per person in Chapel Hill during the 2009…
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First It Was Phony Engineers, Now It’s Fake Barbers
Thank goodness we have the state of North Carolina watching out for us! First, we learn about “phony” engineers being investigated by the state licensing board. Phony meaning residents disagreed…
Raleigh creeps into top 10 in annual tax burden list
RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees reached $2,252 per person in Chapel Hill during the 2008 budget year, as the Orange County town ranked No. 4 among North Carolina’s largest…
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Madoff can expect decent medical care, but he’ll have to buy postage
So says Forbes in this report (provided by Yahoo) describing the cushiest prisons in the federal system. For inmates in ill health, FCC Butner is the place to be; the…