Daren Bakst, John Locke Foundation legal and regulatory policy analyst, discusses problems associated with taxpayer-financed election campaigns, including the 2009 Chapel Hill elections. Bakst offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 340).
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State forecasts $1.4 billion budget surplus
The North Carolina General Assembly's Fiscal Research Division projects that while inflation and interest rates are still up, the state will have $400 million over in collections in the current fiscal year and $1 billion additional revenue coming into the state coffers in FY 2024-25.