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RALEIGH — The Federal Communications Commission made a mistake when it approved the city of Wilson’s petition to overturn a North Carolina law limiting municipal broadband services. A new John…

RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Rocky Mount totaled about $1,569 per person in the 2012 budget year. The city ranked No. 26 out of North Carolina’s 35 largest…

Click here to view and here to listen to Michael Lowrey discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Rocky Mount totaled about $1,571 per person…

Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Michael Sanera discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Rocky Mount totaled about $1,581 per…

Click here to view and here to listen to Joseph Coletti discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Rocky Mount totaled about $1,434 per person…

RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Rocky Mount totaled about $1,552 per person in the 2008 budget year. The city ranked No. 26 out of North Carolina’s 32 largest…

RALEIGH — School districts across North Carolina would be forced to close more than 150 traditional schools, if the State Board of Education extended new charter school performance standards to…

RALEIGH — No public school system in the region earned better than a C grade in the John Locke Foundation’s second-annual ranking of “parent-friendly” schools. The ranking…

RALEIGH — Rocky Mount‘s city government revenue grew 20 percent faster than population and inflation growth would have predicted from 2002 to 2007. A family of four would have needed…

RALEIGH — Wilson’s $28 million Greenlight fiber-optic cable system could be obsolete before it’s complete, sticking taxpayers and electric utility customers with the bill for the city’s investment. That’s the…