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Wednesday, May, 16 2012
Posted May 14th, 2012 at 5:21 PM by Chad Adams
The left leaning Brookings Institute has a bit to say on taxpayer funded ball stadiums: Proponents (of taxpayer funded stadiums) claim that sports facilities improve the local economy in four ways. First, building the facility creates construction jobs. Second, people who attend games or work for the team generate new spending in the community, expanding [...]
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Posted at 4:17 AM by Chad Adams
A group that support the private funding of a ball stadium in Wilmington sans tax increase is holding a press conference at 11am today at city hall. Over 60 business owners and private citizens have already joined the alliance and more are joining daily. The group’s intention is to support a stadium without a tax [...]
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Posted May 13th, 2012 at 8:40 PM by Bob Smith
A vast network of environmental activists with insidious schemes plots to dismantle our vital American industries; especially energy and other necessary products derived from our natural resources. Slowly, but surely, they are destroying industries that give us high quality living at reasonable cost. During the past several years here at the Southeastern coastal area we [...]
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Posted May 10th, 2012 at 10:33 AM by Chad Adams
One would think the City of Wilmington’s leaders would be concerned about the ACTUAL role of government. Maybe, they should focus their attention, their energies, their abilities to making the streets safer, the roads better and fire protection more efficient. Why should the city be giving baseball a higher degree of city haste, than any [...]
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Posted at 10:26 AM by Chad Adams
Last night, the citizens of Wilmington were treated to “free” movie of sorts. Th city had planned to show the recorded meeting of the Election Night presentation made by National Sports Services (NSS) on the proposed taxpayer funded baseball stadium. (They had to leave town before making a second presentation.) They didn’t inform the public that [...]
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Posted at 7:16 AM by Bob Smith
“We have people in Raleigh now who are going to represent our interests”—profound words spoken by Mr. Arthur Lougren. He and his wife Dagmar live just south of the People’s Republic of Wilmington in Monkey Junction on 1,100 acres of prospering development currently free of double taxation. This revenue-rich land has for years been coveted [...]
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While city government growth in Wilmington tracked inflation and population growth pretty closely from 2002 to 2007, Jacksonville's revenues climbed 24 percent faster than inflation and population. A new John Locke Foundation Policy Report offers details.
Local taxes and fees in Wilmington topped $2,125 per person in the 2008 budget year, according to a new John Locke Foundation report. That total placed Wilmington at No. 5 in a ranking of the state's larger cities. Charlotte topped the rankings again in 2008, followed by Mooresville, Asheville, and Chapel Hill.
Wilmington is only one of many N.C. cities that are using the state’s overly broad annexation law to harm local residents.
North Carolina could face a "property insurance disaster" unless it takes steps soon to shore up its coastal Beach Plan, according to a new John Locke Foundation Policy Report.
New Hanover County public schools and other North Carolina school districts are not very "parent-friendly.” No area school district earns a higher grade than the C assigned to Whiteville City Schools and Columbus, Onslow, and Pender county school districts. Brunswick matches New Hanover's D+ grade.
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This report examines 52 contracts signed by the Raleigh Convention Center for the period of July–December 2011 and is a follow-up to the September 2008 John Locke Foundation report “The New Raleigh Convention Center: A taxpayer-funded money pit.”
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This report highlights eleven action items that North Carolina’s new General Assembly should seek to implement in the first 100 days of the 2011 legislative session. These items touch upon a cross section of public policy areas, including education, economic development, property rights, energy and the environment, health care, the budget, and transparency. We at the John Locke Foundation believe that these items represent straightforward actions that would greatly enhance the liberty and prosperity of North Carolina’s citizens.
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