There’s something slightly odd in this piece about Wilmington’s audit in Port City Daily. Overall, it sounds ok. They received a clean audit opinion. Unanticipated expenses were covered by the…
It didn’t grab headlines, but the House tax reform plan due out today includes a nugget free-marketeers should find encouraging. From the Wall Street Journal (behind the paywall): Tax-exempt bonds…
Bids to bring major-league soccer to Charlotte or Raleigh offer a major contrast in the way taxpayers would be forced to help foot the bill. A new John Locke Foundation…
This morning, Mecklenburg County Commissioners voted 5-4 to spend millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money to subsidize a very wealthy family’s pursuit of a potentially extremely lucrative professional soccer team. The…
From Reason’s Eric Boehm: Six government appointees, including the son of a vice president, who negotiated how much public money would be spent building the Minnesota Vikings’ new football stadium…
The city of the moment that’s being asked to pony up a lot of money for a new minor league baseball stadium is Fayetteville. Per the Fayetteville Observer: If Fayetteville…
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed says a renovation of Philips Arena, key to keeping the Atlanta Hawks in downtown, could be a $200 million to $300 million…
Though all told the city may be getting off light in losing the NFL Rams franchise, considering how much money it would lose if the Rams stayed in town: The…
Taxpayer monies are not a treasure chest to dip into to give money to private business based on hope for economic improvement rather than a sound fiscal analysis,” said George…
This report examines 52 contracts signed by the Raleigh Convention Center for the period of July–December 2011 and is a follow-up to the September 2008 John Locke Foundation report “The…
View in your browser. Compared with unsubsidized Glenwood South, taxpayer-subsidized Fayetteville Street is a ghost town Raleigh city leaders are quick to claim victory when a new "downtown" project is…
As sure as the sun will come up tomorrow, proposals to cut budgets bring out special interests and one of the most powerful is the so-called arts community. The arts…