From NBC 17 yesterday. Article here, video below.
Monthly Archives: August 2009
- 1Aug17
Not Transit Time
The News & Observer pens an editorial today telling Triangle residents that now is the time for transit to get going and for all you folks out there in Wake, Durham and Orange counties to go out and vote yourself a tax increase. The crux of the argument for the trains lies in this paragraph: [...]
- 1Aug17
Dog Bites Man
Following up on an external audit showing dramatic waste in the UNC system, the N&O reveals more details about the growing layers of bureaucrats throughout the UNC system. This decade has been good for associate vice chancellors at UNC-Chapel Hill. Their numbers have nearly doubled, from 10 to 19, and the money paid to them [...]
- Aug17
Could it be – an End to the Public Option debate?
It’s only taken thousands of protests throughout the country, incessant calls to congress, and hundreds of discussions on the crucial flaws of a public option plan. Now the Obama administration is shifting its rhetoric on the public option plan as a cornerstone of health care reform. The outcry against the public option has been so [...]
- Aug14
NC Colleges: Public Needs Better Return on Investment
How much bang does North Carolina get for its higher education buck? Not very much. That is the final result of A nationwide study from the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability released earlier this month. In a nutshell the report says North Carolina spends about $50,000 per degree awarded by the state’s [...]
- Aug14
Perdue Issues Budget Cut
It’s 4pm on a Friday, what is your Governor doing? Issuing an Executive Order cutting the newly minted FY09-10 budget by 5%. Yes, the budget that the General Assembly just passed and Governor just signed is already so far from reality that the Governor is taking steps to adjust it. This move just begs so [...]
- 2Aug14
Whole Foods
It appears that Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is getting quite the response from granola shoppers around the country after his op-ed in the WSJ appeared earlier this week. His article highlighted eight reforms that we should consider before hopping on board with Obamacare. The reforms offer free-market solutions to the health care problem without increasing the national [...]
- Aug14
Free Market Advocates or “Do Nothing Corporate Shills”?
The Foundation for Economic Education’s Sheldon Richman sets a few things straight regarding the health care debate in this excellent read. On the argument that those who oppose Obamacare want to “do nothing”: Anyone who thinks that the free-market solution means doing nothing is either ignorant or dishonest. Sorry, I see no other alternative. It [...]
- 1Aug14
Tax Dollars Used to Bribe German Banking Giant
Our central planners in Raleigh are at it again. This time, a subsidiary of German investment banking giant Deutsche Bank will receive a substantial tax break for opening a technology development center in Wake Co. (I thought big investment banks were evil?) Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that Deutsche Bank AG will open a technology development [...]
- Aug14
Why are taxes are so high? So we can play tennis!
With all the national issues it turns out to be a local one that best crystallizes the problem with runaway government. In the Raleigh News and Observer today we have an article, Women sues to get men to play her, about a female tennis player suing the city of Raleigh for the right to play in [...]