Hickory

RALEIGH — Catawba County ranks No. 76 in the state in the amount of local taxes and fees residents pay, when that amount is expressed as a share of their…

Click here to view and here to listen to Michael Lowrey discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Hickory totaled about $1,838 per person in…

Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Michael Sanera discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Hickory totaled about $1,810 per person…

Click here to view and here to listen to Joseph Coletti discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Hickory totaled about $1,854 per person in…

RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Hickory totaled about $1,976 per person in the 2008 budget year. That total ranks Hickory No. 8 among North Carolina’s larger cities in…

RALEIGH — None of the region’s public school systems earned better than a B grade in the John Locke Foundation’s second-annual assessment of “parent-friendly” public schools. But the…

RALEIGH — While some local governments kept their growth rates in line with inflation and population growth from 2002 to 2007, others raised far more money from taxpayers in that…

RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Hickory totaled about $1,891 per person in the 2007 budget year, ranking the city No. 13 out of North Carolina’s 31 largest cities…

RALEIGH – North Carolina school districts are not very “parent-friendly,” according to a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report. But western school districts earn better grades than others in…

Click here to view and here to listen to Chad Adams discussing the By The Numbers Report. RALEIGH – Local taxes and fees in Hickory totaled about $1,846…