North Carolina’s new budget is, on balance, more good than bad. However, a staggering number of earmarks and pork spending for local projects permeate the budget and abuse taxpayer money.…
Education is a labor-intensive industry, and our public schools provide outstanding employment opportunities for a wide range of workers. Last year, North Carolina’s public school districts and charter schools employed…
CJ’s Barry Smith reports on the Taxpayer Protection Alliance’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ taxpayer-funded internet projects that have cost the public more than $2 billion. One North Carolina network makes the ‘Dirty…
In their recently published study, “What Can We Learn from Charter School Lotteries?” Julia Chabrier, Sarah Cohodes, and Philip Oreopoulos take a closer look at students who have and have…
RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Asheville totaled about $2,078 per resident in the 2012 budget year, ranking the city No. 7 out of North Carolina’s largest ranked cities,…
Whilst all about, children perish in food deserts – or so we hear – the town fathers in Black Mountain are inquiring into topics of a more eternal nature, like…
According to Credit.com, the annual American Community Survey has been released and discusses U.S. household income and what areas/cities have the highest and lowest incomes. You can read the whole…
View in your browser. Welcome On Monday, credit.com published a list of areas that have the highest and lowest household median incomes. The "lowest" list includes three North Carolina communities,…
Click here to view and here to listen to Michael Lowrey discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Asheville totaled about $2,066 per resident in the 2011…
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Michael Sanera discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Asheville totaled about $2,126 per resident in the…
Click here to view and here to listen to Joseph Coletti discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Asheville totaled about $2,173 per resident in the 2009…
The General Assembly is saving us again with its resplendent economic policies. A beneficent grant, no doubt a sacfrifice out of the legislators’ own hard-earned savings, will create jobs. Don’t…