Last week, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced the National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2022. Overall, the U.S. Department of Education recognized 297 schools for outstanding academic performance or…
This week, the Senate budget was released. There are plenty of other provisions inserted into the budget bill that affects cities and counties, but those are mostly related to public…
Sears Holdings has announced that it’s closing 68 Kmarts and 10 Sears stores. Among the casualties are five Kmarts in North Carolina: Brevard, Gastonia, Lumberton, Pineville, and Rocky Mount. Another…
An article in the local daily today whines that economic developers were in the middle of recruiting the mother of all economic engines – some multibillion-dollar, multinational of freakish proportions…
RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Fayetteville totaled $1,338 per resident in the 2012 budget year, according to a new John Locke Foundation report. Fayetteville ranked No. 32 among…
RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Wilmington topped $2,195 per person in the 2012 budget year, according to a new John Locke Foundation report. That total placed Wilmington at…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld this morning the N.C. Utilities Commission’s decision not to allow environmental activist group NC WARN to intervene in…
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,…
Luke 18:5 tells the story of a widow who kept going before a judge to plead her case. Eventually, the man, who has for generations been referred to as “The…
After national media outlets transcribed left-of-center talking points that criticized North Carolina’s Republican General Assembly and governor, John Locke Foundation President John Hood offered a more accurate assessment of the…
Based on a decision from the N.C. Supreme Court stemming from a Lumberton case, the N.C. Court of Appeals has reversed course from a 2012 decision dealing with a challenge…