Carolina Journal Exclusives Rhetorical Bullets Fly As House Committee OKs Abortion Bill Measure on fast track, now moves to House floor By David N. Bass May 12, 2011 RALEIGH — Is pregnancy punishment? Is the process of getting an abortion comparable to refinancing a mortgage? Do abortion providers disproportionately target African-American women? Those were some […]
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FayObserver.com http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2011/04/06/1082818?sac=Opin Don’t rush ObamaCare exchange by Joel Coletti, John Locke Foundation Fresh from their vote against ObamaCare’s individual mandate, state legislators began work to implement an ObamaCare health insurance exchange. Legislators who took a principled stand against one form of federal overreach are now complicit in another. Why? Republicans, Democrats, health insurers, care providers
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April 07, 2011 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive VIDEO: Is DOT Double-Counting High-Speed Rail Jobs? By Anthony Greco RALEIGH — Under the job-years concept, if one person holds the same job for four years, it’s counted as four jobs. That’s how the North Carolina Department of Transportation can claim that federal funding for high-speed rail would
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JOHN HOOD’S DAILY JOURNAL By John Hood March 30, 2011 RALEIGH – With all due respect to my right-leaning friends who are diehard NC State or UNC fans, they should not let their affection for their favorite sports mascots obscure a deeper truth about themselves: they have little in common with wolves or sheep. Conservatives
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March 23, 2011 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive VIDEO: Pantano Gets Early Start on 2012 Campaign By Anthony Greco RALEIGH — Ilario Pantano is not taking any downtime after his narrow loss to U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-7th. Pantano filed campaign paperwork with the Federal Election Commission. He said he decided to keep his campaign
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VETO Override Raleigh – Governor Beverly Perdue has vetoed House Bill 2, which protects North Carolina citizens from the unconstitutional “individual mandate” in the federal health care legislation. The House of Representatives will take a stand and take a vote to override this veto. As you know, the North Carolina Senate has a veto proof majority. The House
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March 07, 2011 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive NCGA Preview: Week of March 7 By Anthony Greco RALEIGH — The bill lifting the state’s cap on charter schools at 100 passed the Senate by a 33-17 vote. It faces tougher sledding in the House. John Hood’s Daily Journal Perdue Now Owns ObamaCare Perdue and Cooper
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——————————————————————————– Carolina Journal Exclusives Hard to Reproduce Game Plan of RTP Founders Unique confluence of time and place made RTP possible By Jay Schalin February 10, 2011 RALEIGH — Perhaps North Carolina’s history should be dated “B.T.” and “A.T.” — Before the Triangle and After the Triangle. In the early 1950s, when Research Triangle Park
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Carolina Journal Exclusives NCGA Preview: Week of February 7 Balanced Budget Act, health care exclusion set for votes this week By Anthony Greco February 07, 2011 RALEIGH – Unlike previous sessions, where it might take weeks for legislation to reach a final vote in one legislative house and move to the other, the 2011 General
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December 16, 2010 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive Public Employee Pension Debt Explodes By Karen McMahan RALEIGH — If government officials were forced to apply the same uniform accounting methods that private pension plan administrators must use to calculate liabilities, experts say the funding shortfall would be five times greater than the amount being reported
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