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Amendment will protect state taxpayers
Even if the tax-cap amendment passes, future legislatures could raise North Carolina income taxes quite a bit if they deem it necessary — although that would be unwise and counterproductive.
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Amendment critics need to move beyond partisan spin
Left-leaning partisans' generic complaints don't fit the proposals voters see on their election ballots.
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Unwelcome visitor
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Tough spot
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Power grid cost deserves attention
Duke Energy’s $13 billion plan to modernize the power grid would raise average residential bill by 25 percent, or roughly $26 a month per household.
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We can’t go back, and that’s the problem
During the “dog days” of summer, in what was likely an opening salvo of the 2020 presidential campaign, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts introduced a proposal to alter American capitalism radically. If enacted, large firms would have to incorporate at the federal level and live by a charter that forces them to consider the interests...
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What difference does it make, anyway?
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Suggestions to strengthen libel laws are suggestions to suppress free speech
Politicians and newsmakers have lately developed a penchant for the words “libel,” “slander,” and “defamation.” Oftentimes these words, salient and distinct, are used carelessly and ignorantly. Writers and irresponsible journalists have in fact lurched off course — accidentally or deliberately — and sometimes — after costly and lengthy legal proceedings — the aggrieved party is...
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The struggle is real
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Silenced
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Why North Carolinians are upbeat
North Carolina is now spending hundreds of millions of dollars more a year than it used to building, expanding, resurfacing, and maintaining our highways — and the results are evident.
