city in Wake County, North Carolina
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…
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…
I was voter 57 at 7:00 am. I left my polling place (in Fuquay-Varina) fifteen minutes later and the line was still pretty long.
Three weeks ago I blogged about Fuquay-Varina commissioners having voted to offer youth sports programs even though a local nonprofit has been running a successful area youth sports league for…
For 22 years the Fuquay-Varina Athletic Association has operated successful youth sports leagues for those in and around the town. And now, despite the group’s successful record and despite there…
At JLF sister blog The Locker Room, Jon Sanders posts about a dispute in Fuquay-Varina over who will provide sports opportunities for town kids. A volunteer group has been administering…
As a prologue, recall the “Yellow Pages Test”: Years ago, the first libertarian I encountered introduced to me the concept of the “Yellow Pages Test”: If it’s in the Yellow…
Yesterday, News & Observer education reporter Keung Hui wrote extensively about a Wake County Board of Education discussion of magnet schools and student achievement. He linked to a huge collection…
View in your browser. In order to enlist the support of the Wake County cities and towns, the Wake County manager David Cooke and the Triangle Transit Authority (TTA) CEO,…
John Locke Foundation staff will be busy this afternoon with a candidate policy briefing and roundtable issue discussion leading into the 2012 election season. Vice President for Outreach Becki Gray…
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Michael Sanera discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees topped $2,281 per person in Chapel Hill during the…
The News & Observer reports Carrboro is a finalist in the Oprah network’s “Lovetown USA” reality show. Fuquay-Varina didn’t survive the cut. So if Oprah tries to set up two…