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Articles in This Series: The next three recommendations in the Civitas Institute Agenda “20 Changes for 2010: A Primer for State Reform” focus on policies to ... Keep Reading

If you appreciate the work of the Civitas Institute, please consider a donation. Prior to signing his federal “stimulus” bill in early 2009, President Obama warned, ... Keep Reading

Articles in This Series: The fifth recommendation in the Civitas Institute 2010 Agenda: “20 Changes for 2010: A Primer for State Reform” focuses on reducing threats ... Keep Reading

In January of 2009, Gov. Bev Perdue issued Executive Order #5 to establish the North Carolina Budget Reform and Advisory Commission (BRAC). BRAC was established, in part, to ensure ... Keep Reading

Articles in This Series: Recommendations 3 and 4 from the Civitas Institute Agenda “20 Changes for 2010: A Primer for State Reform,” focus on how North Carolina can ... Keep Reading

Articles in This Series: The first two recommendations in the Civitas Institute 2010 Agenda: “20 Changes for 2010: A Primer for State Reform” focus on policies that ... Keep Reading

In spite of an already alarming level of debt, Raleigh and Wake County council members continue to max out the taxpayers’ credit card without even asking first for ... Keep Reading

The economy, and jobs, was the centerpiece of President Obama’s State of the Union address last week, unfortunately not in the way many would have hoped. A near unanimous ... Keep Reading

Civitas first reported on the now infamous $25 million fishing pier in Nags Head as a Bad Bill of the Week in May. The August issue of Civitas Review featured “Pier ... Keep Reading

The announcement in late 2009 that the Winston-Salem Dell plant was closing placed North Carolina’s economic incentive policies under sharp scrutiny. The failure of Dell ... Keep Reading