NC 250
Griffith Rutherford: Man of action
Griffith Rutherford was a civic and military leader from the North Carolina frontier who was involved in all aspects of the colony’s Revolutionary struggle. He lived just southwest of Salisbury…
Salisbury
NC 250
Revolutionary Resolves in NC from the East to the West
Annoyance and resistance to the policies of King George III and the British Parliament did not just materialize after the April 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. In…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
How government “economic incentive” programs push us toward central planning
As the late Nobel prize-winning economist Friedrich A. Hayek once wrote, all economies are planned. Buying, selling, saving, investing, and all other activities are the result of someone’s plan. As…
Elections & Public Integrity
Rowan County Early Voting Site Left Unlocked
A concerned citizen forwarded an email to me earlier this week reporting that the Rowan County Board of Elections (BOE) office in Salisbury was left unlocked on the morning of…
Education
On This Day in NC | December 12 – 16
December 12, 1957 | In Salisbury, the first Food Town opened. It was later renamed Food Lion in 1983. The chain cut prices dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s and became one of…
Regulation
John Locke Foundation’s Influence: Jon Sanders’ Piece About Broadband Prompts Multiple Responses
The John Locke Foundation is continuing to start important conversations in North Carolina. In April of this year, The Wilson Times published an opinion piece written by JLF’s Jon Sanders…
Liberty
CJ reports: Republicans reversing course on government role in rural broadband?
Carolina Journal reports on bills designed to decrease government’s role in rural broadband: North Carolina for many years has been a battleground over government-backed broadband services. The issue seemed to…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
JLF’s Mitch Kokai weighs in on Salisbury, NC broadband service for the Heartland Institute
John Locke Foundation’s Mitch Kokai was featured in an article by the Heartland Institute about Salisbury, North Carolina getting out of the internet business ten years after building a taxpayer-funded…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on a state commission’s approval for Salisbury to refinance debt linked to its municipal broadband system. Michael Walden’s Daily Journal ponders potential changes…
Liberty
What can we do about high-speed internet service in the mountains?
The unique challenges of providing high-speed internet in areas of low population density and difficult terrain would seem to make government intervention more feasible. The irony is, they are what…
Liberty
Salisbury voters overwhelmingly support lease of Fibrant
In 2009, JLF researchers warned Salisbury leaders that other cities trying to get in the broadband business lost so much money on them they eventually had to sell their systems…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
Johnny Kampis reports for Carolina Journal Online about Salisbury’s vote today on a lease of its money-losing broadband system. The Daily Journal highlights United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley’s recent advice…