multi-modal industrial park and airport in Kinston, North Carolina
Low-cost energy is an essential ingredient to economic vitality. Rodney Pitts, chairman of Southern Elevator and a John Locke Foundation board member sent the following to the Charlotte Observer as…
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online on a new audit raising questions about N.C. Global TransPark finances. John Trump’s Daily Journal explains why parents might choose sacrifice and inconvenience…
The basics of North Carolina spending do not change much in Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposed budget. As in previous years, more than 85 percent of state tax dollars would go…
In more than a quarter century of exposing N.C. government boondoggles, Carolina Journal has highlighted some major turkeys. Rick Henderson discusses two of them — the Randy Parton Theatre and…
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online on the continuing search for a workable strategic plan for North Carolina’s Global TransPark. John Trump details local governments’ response to this year’s…
In his 1985 address to the North Carolina Foundation for Research and Economic Education (NC FREE), Gov. James Martin laid out three keys to a more conservative view of government.…
Last paragraph in Dan Way’s CJ write-up on the state House transportation budget: The House provides $1.5 million in 2017-18 and $460,000 in 2018-19 to the Global TransPark near Kinston…
The UNC Board of Governors thinks we do — at East Carolina. Is this likely to be a great boon to the area — or another boondoggle like the Global…
University public-private research parks have been proliferating rapidly in the last couple of decades. Eight UNC campuses already have one, and another was recently approved for East Carolina University. The…
A new academic study suggests women are underrepresented in North Carolina’s elected and appointed government jobs. Becki Gray reacts to that study during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.…
Reporting for Carolina Journal, Don Carrington follows up on what happened to the deal with Spirit AeroSystems at the Global TransPark. When Gov. Mike Easley announced in May 2008 that…
The Golden LEAF Foundation has pledged $50 million toward development of the Randolph County megasite. Earlier this week, the countuy’s Board of Commissioners voted to spend $4.1 million to purchase…