*This story was corrected on October 12, 2022 Joshua Rohrer, a homeless veteran with PTSD, was arrested Oct. 13, 2021, for panhandling and resisting arrest. During the struggle with police, Rohrer’s dog, Sunshine, was tazed in the struggle. The officer involved says the dog bit his boot. The Gastonia Police Department maintains their officers acted...
Despite overwhelming support for North Carolina to remain a Right to Work state, the movement toward enshrining the policy in the state constitution has been static. Seventy-five years ago this week, North Carolina enacted the Right to Work law, which banned making union membership a condition of employment and codified a broad anti-union consensus across...
Legislators in both the N.C. House and Senate took a short break from pressing business today to mark the 91st birthday of Thomas Sowell. The Gastonia native has injected important economic concepts into high-profile national public policy debates for decades. John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke had urged state officials to honor Sowell during a...
RALEIGH – Gastonia should get out of the golf-course business and focus on providing essential city services. That’s the key recommendation in a recent John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
CHARLOTTE — Greensboro’s efforts to hold on to its hockey franchise have failed. The decision by a minor league to disband the Greensboro Generals comes after the city itself ran the team at a loss while searching for permanent owners. In an attempt to keep the franchise afloat, the city operated it in 2003-04 and covered its financial losses. The Greensboro Coliseum’s director oversaw its day-to-day operations and the head coach became a city employee. But the subsidies didn’t work. In other important local news, some counties are joining the state health plan and Gastonia is trying to clean up its downtown.
