This article is the third installment in a series of recommendations currently being released on a weekly basis. Future weeks will detail how much the state can save by ... Keep Reading
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Eliminate $12.4 Million in New Pork Spending
This article is the second installment in a series of recommendations currently being released on a weekly basis. Future weeks will detail how much the state can save by freezing ... Keep Reading
Leaders Need New Budget Priorities
If you had to suddenly cut 5 percent from your family’s budget, how would you do it? I suspect most people would include the term “priorities” somewhere in their ... Keep Reading
Dissolve Golden LEAF
This article is the first installment in a series of recommendations to be released over the next few weeks. Future weeks will detail how much the state can save by cutting pork, ... Keep Reading
Dear Guv: Practice saying ‘No new taxes’
RALEIGH - We've all heard about the financial crisis facing this country. You'd have to be living in a cave to have missed it. But what about another type of financial crisis ... Keep Reading
Budget & Tax Roundup: Lack of Accountability
A continued spending binge, tax and fee increases and a lack of accountability to taxpayers all dominated the recently completed two-year budget cycle. The following brief summary ... Keep Reading
Legislative Recap Series
What your Legislature did and didn't do in the 2007-2008 biennial session The North Carolina General Assembly was busy in the 2007-2008 biennium. But all that work can get ... Keep Reading
Cutting the Gas Tax: A Proposal
Proposal: Permanently cut North Carolina’s gas tax by more than a third, while increasing funding for high priority projects such as urban loops and intrastate highways by ... Keep Reading
Taxes, Fees to Further Pinch Wake County Residents
Local governments throughout Wake County recently made it more difficult for working families to make ends meet. At a time when rising gas and food prices are stretching household ... Keep Reading
Setting The Stage For Failure
When you go camping, you are supposed to leave the campgrounds “better off than when you arrived” so others who come along later will be able to enjoy the area, as ... Keep Reading
