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North Carolina reportedly had a record year of investment in film productions in 2021 despite having a cap on its film grant, a seemingly counterintuitive result that's consistent with research…
The same editors who called business tax cuts "wasting the public's money, throwing it away for the benefit of a few" back in May are now saying it was an…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released an update to its list of high-risk federal program areas, which is updated every two years. The Medicaid program remains on GAO’s list of…
View in your browser. North Carolina’s film tax incentives program has changed significantly. Formerly a refundable tax credit of 25 percent of qualifying production expenses capped at $20 million per…
You can almost count upon op-eds and editorials written in favor of keeping North Carolina’s film incentives to cite popular, well-known North Carolina productions such as “Bull Durham” (1988), “Dirty…
Alysia Finley in a WSJ piece today breaks down the film flam game of the Hollywood industry, their dirty little secrets, special deals for their millionaires’ clubs, hustlers in for…
The Washington Post interviewed Tevi Troy recently about his new book highlighting the intersection between presidential politics and popular culture. Why should politicians care about popular culture? Politicians need to…
More than 200 school teachers who work for St. Thomas More Academy, Franklin Academy, and the three Thales academies heard a keynote address one week ago on sustainable development and…
View in your browser. North Carolina’s film tax credits are currently slated to expire at the close of 2014. Accuracy requires use of the word "currently" to underscore the fluidity…
Tevi Troy shares with Politico some themes from his new book about the links between the White House and the world of popular culture. President Barack Obama has taken the…
That is how the film industry treats North Carolina’s film tax credit, as my newsletter discusses. With the tax credit, the state’s film industry is an economic dynamo, but it’s…
View in your browser. The legislature has adjourned, but it’s not too soon for film production companies to start making noise about the possible expiration of the tax credits for…