A group of activists wants utility companies, including Progress Energy here in NC, to issue reports on complying with global-warming regulations. This is not the right approach.
If a notoriously reckless recipient of state taxpayers' money can change its name and get back in line at the trough, you can forget getting control of the budget.
The mainstream media are trying to make sense of the brave new world of the internet and bloggers. Old media types are worrying a lot these days about their waning influence, credibility and market share. They’re searching for a magic bullet that will make things “normal” again, meaning give them back their prestige, influence and monopoly.
There is no good reason why the taxpayers of North Carolina should pay for the building of an optometry school at Pembroke.
How much are you willing to pay for U.S. Open golf championship tickets to Pinehurst this June, plus a place to stay during the event? Some tournament patrons have paid up to $50,000 for a one-week rental house in past years. In the rental housing market, prices for the week are determined strictly by "what the traffic will bear."
RALEIGH – Is it April 15 already? Just seems like yesterday that I was filling out my tax forms for 2003. Now I’ve got to finish up my taxes for 2004 and pay Uncle Sam and Cousin Mike a tidy sum for the privilege of living in America and North Carolina, respectively.
Bootleggers (aka Progress Energy, Duke Power) join hands with Baptists (environmentalists) to push Clean Smokestacks bill.
Speaker Jim Black, fresh from his lottery victory on Wednesday, cheered on the demise Thursday of a bill to deconsolidate Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, only to backtrack a day later. Good — the issue deserves serious debate.
The role of journalism in a democratic society is to inform the public to make sound decisions and, thereby, lead to the preservation of democracy. By inference, then, journalism’s role should include exposing those who try to destroy the legitimacy of institutions in that society. In this latter role they have recently failed.
A prominent free-market economist is calling for a new federal consumption tax -- not to replace the income tax but to supplement it. His argument is flawed but worth a read.
Federal Tax Freedom Day comes on April 17th this year. Since Tax Freedom day tells us "how much we are paying for our government," the April 17th date means that, on average, Americans will pay 29.1 percent of their income for government at all levels.
