The 2017 long session of the General Assembly starts Wednesday, and the first day is likely to be more ceremonial than substantive. Once members are sworn in and leaders in the House and Senate are elected, lawmakers will head home. They return Jan. 25 to get to work in earnest. Lt. Gov. Dan Forest will gavel...
Raleigh and Asheville are not alone in questioning the future of this technology-based short-term rental business.
Fuzzy economic logic drives the city’s campaign to limit short-term home rentals.
RALEIGH — North Carolina taxpayers struggling with a sluggish economy would not have to worry about new taxes or fees under the 2012-13 state budget plan moving through the N.C. House. That's good news for John Locke Foundation budget analysts, who say the plan also has room for improvement. The House's Appropriations Committee is considering today a General Fund budget that would spend more than $20.2 billion in 2012-13.
RALEIGH — Expiration of North Carolina's temporary 1-cent sales tax and income tax surcharges, a cut in the corporate tax rate, and other tax changes linked to the N.C. House budget and anticipated tax-reform package would lead to a net gain of 8,000 jobs in 2012 and 10,000 jobs by 2013. The John Locke Foundation's top budget analyst reaches those conclusions after reviewing a new report from a Boston-based economic research team.
If taxpayers are lucky, perhaps the budget negotiations in Raleigh will linger until Labor Day, or longer.
Raising taxes was never the only alternative to implementing the most-objectionable cuts of the original House budget. And it's not the best option now.
RALEIGH – The N.C. House’s proposed $21.2 billion state operations budget spends too much money on unproven ideas, overspends one-time money for long-term expenses, and sets up future legislatures for budgetary problems. That’s the assessment of a John Locke Foundation analyst who’s studied the House plan.
There are many more primaries on the House side in 2006 that have implications for partisan control in November — or contain other issues of significance in state politics.
House Republicans are singing in harmony these days when it comes to state budget policy in North Carolina. Is the cause a change of heart or electoral fear?
As taxpayers rush to meet the income-tax deadline, and many in North Carolina convene at the General Assembly, state lawmakers are preparing a "gift" for them.
