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Crop Loss Scam In Mebane
A farmer and an insurance agent from Mebane have pleaded guilty to fraud charges related to a crop-loss scam. It cost you and me $8.4 million. If you’re interested in…
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NCCLC under way
The Civitas Institute‘s North Carolina Conservative Leadership Conference is underway at the Sheraton Imperial in the RTP. I’m currently operating from “Blogger’s Row” as the panel discussion on illegal immigration,…
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The Booming Voice of Business
The recently released Business Climate Survey by JLF’s Center for Local Innovation found that North Carolina’s business leaders believe that the state’s high tax rate is the number one impediment…
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Can we just make Mexico the 51st state?
Rick Martinez: great article today on the immigration issues! Does make me wonder if we could just take on Mexico as the 51st state of the USA, that would eliminate…
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AMA Takes Ominous Step In Organ Donation Effort
I am alarmed by a recent decision of the American Medical Association to support researching what’s called “presumed consent” donation, a process that is a ghoulish intrusion into privacy and…
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Re: has it come to this?
Saddam’s humiliation? The media should remember the calamity and terror he willfully inflicted on the masses. I suggest folks take another look at a piece of September 2002 column written…
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Can the Triangle’s Light Rail Project Be Stopped?
Raleigh News & Observer op-ed columnist Rick Martinez writes that local officials should show some leadership and kill the project by stopping the local portion of the train’s funding. And,…
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Hey, At Least There’s Progress
We can talk all day about the poor policy decision made by elected officials years ago to create and heavily subsidize Raleigh’s Exploris museum, but that would be a waste…
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Wake Up to JLF
Raleigh-area listeners to WPTF-AM’s “Morning News With Kevin Miller” will hear Donna Martinez Monday morning. She will co-host the show with husband Rick Martinez, an op-ed columnist for the Raleigh…
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Workshops a Hit With Officials
Chad Adams hosted the Center for Local Innovation’s three-city tour this week, which offered elected officials and administrators ideas for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of public services and public…
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American Women Today
Liberal feminism isn’t dead, but it is increasingly irrelevant to many women, according to two JLF staffers who appeared on WPTFs “Bill LuMaye Show” on Friday. Summer Hood and Donna…
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Efficiency
The Senate tried to kill 15 school districts in the name of equity and efficiency. Rick Martinez, in this morning’s N&O, writes that there are too many nonprofits working on…