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Ray Nothstine explores for the Law and Liberty website a recent history of the troubled N.C. experiment known as Soul City. Soul City, North Carolina, is the mostly forgotten dream…
The News & Observer ran one of its occasional “fact checks” on a recent statement by former Democratic Sen. Floyd McKissick before the General Assembly. He said, while calling for…
Legislative efforts to do away with North Carolina’s Certificate of Need (CON) law took a path less traveled by this short session. If enacted, it would be pretty epic to…
Here is a press release that was sent out this morning from the NC Senate President Pro Tempore’s office: Raleigh, N.C. – Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) on Tuesday announced…
John Fund‘s latest column at National Review Online looks back at a controversial report Daniel Patrick Moynihan prepared in 1965, just as Lyndon Johnson was launching his “Great Society” programs.…
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…
House Speaker Pro Tem Paul “Skip” Stam (R-Wake) issued the following news release on Wednesday. If you would like the attachments to which he refers, contact his office. I post…
The Senate is scheduled to vote today on a bill returning a great deal of financial self-governance to the voters. Senate Bill 129 passed the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday…
The group Second Chance Alliance wants Durham to prohibit employers — public and private — from asking an applicant, on a job application or in the first interview, if he/she…
Senate takes up SB 13, Balanced Budget Act of 2011. Details on the bill were reported in CJOnline. Senators Richard Stevens (R Wake), Neal Hunt (R Wake), and Peter Brunstetter…
The Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, the only racially-segregated-by-rule organization in Durham, and maybe North Carolina, pulled more hi-jinks last week: Only 18 of the estimated 100…
On Tuesday, the North Carolina FreeEnterprise Foundation released its Business Ratings of the 2009 North Carolina General Assembly. Here are the winners and losers: Senate Top Three: S?43 David Hoyle…