Last week The Star News Online reported Billy Williams, former chief of the New Hanover County Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Board, was convicted of felony charges for submitting a false invoice for more than $43,000 to the ABC board. Williams claimed the money was for paving one of the agency’s stores. He was ordered to [...]
California Nightmare
Steve Greenhut of the Pacific Research Institute has an alarming piece in the February issue of Reason Magazine that chronicles how California public employees have been exploiting the state’s pension system for years and rigging the political system to increase benefits and limit meaningful oversight. While public employees make out handsomely, taxpayers are left holding an unsustainable wave of [...]
