RALEIGH – North Carolina legislators left Raleigh this year without expanding the state’s system of taxpayer-financed election campaigns. But advocates pushed for expansion, and they’re likely to push the idea again in 2011. Before lawmakers left tow…

RALEIGH – Robeson County voters have plenty of good reasons to question a proposed sales tax increase scheduled for a special election next week. John Locke Foundation experts highlight those questions in a new Regional Brief.

Robeson voters will he…

The North Carolina Chapter of Americans for Prosperity today announced a series of November is Coming events across North Carolina to urge North Carolinians to hold their elected officials accountable for votes to raise taxes and expand government on t…

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RALEIGH – Wake County public schools lagged behind other urban districts this year, when it came to meeting goals set in North Carolina's ABCs of Public Education accountability program. That's the assessment of the John Locke Found…

RALEIGH – Adam Smith tells us in The Wealth of Nations that specialization of labor is the key to a nation’s economic advance. One man performing all the steps for making nails, for instance, may produce several hundred per day, but a team of special…

Free Rally to Help Prepare for Historic Election
Rally just one part of November is Coming Weekend in Asheville
AFP-NC will hold a November is Coming Rally, Friday July 30th at 5:30 to urge North Carolinians to hold their elected officials accountabl…

RALEIGH – A new type of taxable bond intended to help stimulate the economy is helping North Carolina schools and governments expand their debt.

About $909 million in Build America Bonds have been issued for such projects in North Carolina as buildi…

RALEIGH – North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper has invested $7.7 million in litigating a pollution-control lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority without much to show for it.

Cooper gained a landmark victory last year when a federal di…