Within three days of this week’s state Appeals Court ruling against the Wilson County school board in a pension-spiking case, state lawyers have highlighted the ruling in two other outstanding cases involving Harnett and Union county schools.
RALEIGH – A North Carolina municipal broadband network has made the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Dirty Dozen” — 12 high-profile taxpayer-funded internet projects that have cost the public more than $2 billion. The North Carolina network is MI-Connection, which provides broadband service to the Charlotte suburbs of Mooresville and Davidson. MI-Connection —$80 million in debt and has an annual...
Rep. Susan Martin, R-Wilson, took a step Wednesday in clearing a path for Wilson to expand the area in which it offers broadband service. She has lobbied for a change in the law to allow rural areas to be more competitive with traditional providers. Martin filed one of 21 bills to close out the second...
Historians consider James Wilson one of the nation’s most important early leaders.
RALEIGH — Wilson’s $28 million Greenlight fiber-optic cable system could be obsolete before it’s complete, sticking taxpayers and electric utility customers with the bill for the city’s investment. That’s the conclusion of a new John Locke Foundation Regional Brief.
Wilson should address essential city services before competing with the private market.
RALEIGH — State Rep. Russell Capps has asked State Auditor Ralph Campbell to investigate the Opportunities Industrialization Center of Wilson, a nonprofit organization largely funded by the state. Capps cited reports by the Wilson Daily Times and Carolina Journal that documented OIC’s role in a 10,000-piece mailing for the Wilson County Democratic Party. Three former students of the OIC claim that as students, they helped OIC staff members prepare the mailing Oct. 31, 2002 just before the general election. The students were let out of class early and paid to help with the project.
Debate is heating up over a proposed statewide rule to prevent public school from starting before Labor Day. Here's what opponents aren't telling you.
