Last night, community members of Marion, North Carolina gathered to voice concerns about the takeover of Asheville-based Mission Health by Nashville-based HCA Healthcare. Mike Conley of McDowell News reports: Both…
The Greensboro News & Record’s press operation will move to an expanded Winston-Salem Journal press operation later this year, the paper reported today. Both papers are owned by Warren Buffett’s…
John Locke Foundation President and CEO Kory Swanson makes his first appearance this weekend with Don Curtis on Curtis Media Group’s syndicated “Carolina Newsmakers” radio program. Topics range from Swanson’s…
The latest Forbes article from John Locke Foundation Health and Human Services Policy Analyst Katherine Restrepo focuses on the anti-competitive roadblocks created by state certificate-of-need restrictions. NCPoliticalNews.com promoted Restrepo’s column…
An Associated Press article this week on the impact of North Carolina’s latest round of election redistricting featured insights from John Locke Foundation President John Hood. The article appeared in…
A pair of recent Sanford Herald editorials cited work from John Locke Foundation researchers. One editorial noted Roy Cordato‘s recent book chapter on tax reform and the proposed USA Tax…
Another Republican, Mattie Lawson, joins the House District 6 race (Beaufort Observer) Incumbent Democrat Larry Kissell leads the way in 8th Congressional District fundraising, hauling in $527,486 through the end…
Two Republican candidates — one running for lieutenant governor, the other for U.S. Congress — recently made a stop in McDowell County (McDowell News) National Democrats aren’t targeting any Republican…
Debate this week about compensation for victims of North Carolina’s eugenics-based forced sterilization program attracted attention to research on that topic from Daren Bakst, John Locke Foundation Director of Legal…
Meck Deck blogger Jeff Taylor returned to the WBT Radio airwaves this week to discuss with Tara Servatius the lack of attempted murder charges from local prosecutors. Meanwhile, Lindalyn Kakadelis…
State law won’t let Will Breazeale run as an independent candidate after he lost the 7th Congressional District’s Republican primary. Error made by election officials leads to big changes in…
Number of contested primaries jumped 60 percent from 2008. Asheville Citizen Times profiles Senate-50 primary candidates. Senate candidates largely relying on own income. McDowell News profiles area candidates. Sen. Joe…