RALEIGH -- Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry were more good-natured debaters than avowed combatants in a discussion of new and old issues at a March 12 event in Raleigh. The John Locke Foundation hosted the banquet featuring the two distinguished Virginians, who had journeyed south from Colonial Williamsburg.
North Carolina counties have submitted the first part of their strategic plans to reform mental-health care. The actions, required by state law, represent a large step forward in a process that is expected to be completed by 2007. The state plans to close Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh and John…
RALEIGH -- Sounding a bit like a kid in a candy store, the chairman of Gov. Mike Easley's Commission to Modernize State Finances told legislators last week that an array of new taxes was needed to sweeten the state's bitter budget outlook. Thomas Ross, executive director of the Z. Smith…
A federal grand jury has indicted two former aides to Agricultural Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps, a U.S. attorney said at a press conference Tuesday. The charges against Linda Johnson Saunders, of Louisburg, and Bobby C. McLamb, of Raleigh, include conspiracy, extortion, wire fraud, and mail fraud, said Frank Whitney, U.S.
James Hyler, Jr., vice chairman and COO of First Citizens Bank and chairman of the Governor’s Commission to Promote Efficiency and and Savings on State Spending, spoke at a Shaftesbury Society luncheon at The John Locke Foundation on Feb. 3 about the panel's work in identifying ways the Easley administration…
RALEIGH – Is Wake County’s student assignment plan working in the best interests of student achievement? Not according to the group Assignment By Choice. Organized in the fall of 2002, the group was formed with the support of elected officials in Cary, Garner, and Apex. The group is trying to…
KINSTON – Electrical customers in North Carolina served by city-owned electric utilities commonly grouped under the association name of ElectriCities have experienced steep increases in their bills in recent months. In Kinston, for example, rates went up three times in 2002 for a total 10 percent increase. Given the financial…
A Raleigh businessman withdrew a preliminary motion for a lawsuit he had filed against a group of businessmen in which he alleged they had interfered with his plans to build a fuel ethanol plant in Beaufort County. William Horton, in his initial filing in Wake County Superior Court on Feb.
The 2002 Urban Mobility Report, a study of urban congestion, found that cities whose highway construction kept close pace with traffic growth were successful in limiting drive times for commuters, reports Paul Chesser.
Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard and a pundit on the Fox News Channel, spoke to an audience at the John Locke Foundation’s 13th anniversary dinner Feb. 28, refuting several common arguments against a war with Iraq.
