Last week, Gov. Roy Cooper pulled $50 million from reserve accounts and funds set aside for summer reading camps (which will not occur this summer for obvious reasons). Districts and…
The N.C. Department of Public Instruction released estimates for the distribution of $100 million in lottery funds for school facilities. Charter schools are not entitled to lottery funds for this…
Here I go, here I go, here I go again (again?) Readers, what’s my weakness? (financial data published by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction!)
What you may have missed in the craziness of yesterday’s election and this morning’s post-mortem is that there were 80 local referenda held across North Carolina. The results were mostly…
Congratulations to the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (Virginia ABC) and North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement (NC ALE) investigators for capturing wanton criminal Claude L. Parker of Gates County,…
As the N.C. Utilities Commission collected public comments this week on a proposed wind energy project off the Beaufort County coast, the John Locke Foundation hosted a pair of workshops…
Nearly half of North Carolina’s counties (46) have now asked voters to consider a sales tax increase, land-transfer tax increase, or both. Voters in eight counties have approved tax increases…
It looks like a heavy Democratic turnout for the Obama/Clinton race did little to bolster support for local-option tax increases (a quarter-cent sales tax and 0.4 land transfer tax) on…
I do not recall who it was — or where I heard it — but someone mentioned that they suspected that Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph was being set-up. That…
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Michael Sanera discussing this Regional Brief. RALEIGH – Gates County voters should consider the millions of dollars their local government…
The Gates County commissioners are asking voters to approve a 200 percent increase in the real estate transfer tax on November 6. But the county has about $2.5 million over…
RALEIGH – In the last eight years, North Carolina public schools have increased in personnel by 19 percent, a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight shows. Even school districts that are…