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Wednesday, May, 16 2012
Posted May 15th, 2012 at 10:39 PM by Leslee Kulba
The Town of Laurel Park wishes to increase the amount residents will pay for water and sewer by about $5.65 per month. The town is merely passing to consumers a five-cent rate increase from the City of Hendersonville, which supplies the water. The remainder of proceeds will go toward improving infrastructure at the storage facility. [...]
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Posted at 10:35 PM by Leslee Kulba
The small town of Mills River made news recently for a proposed tax hike to cover the cost of a new park. The town is suffering a $25,981 deficit. Mayor Roger Snyder and Councilwoman Shannon Gonce did not dig that scene. “I’m trying to look after the people here,” said Gonce. “Not everybody in town [...]
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Posted at 10:33 PM by Leslee Kulba
A recent reval in Murphy assessed 34,000 homes, and determined they had, on average, lost about 27% of their value.
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Posted at 10:32 PM by Leslee Kulba
Asheville protest personality Lisa Landis complained to the Buncombe County Commissioners today about being unjustly arrested. She had been marching down the highway, covering a rally as a citizen reporter. But seriously, communist rallies are like vice trades. If you remove the reporters, spies, sting operators, infiltrators, and social psychologists – who’s left? On a [...]
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County and municipal governments provide many key services while taking in billions of dollars in revenue, but finding comparative data is hard. That's why this report provides information of how much local government costs in every city and county in North Carolina.
This report examines 52 contracts signed by the Raleigh Convention Center for the period of July–December 2011 and is a follow-up to the September 2008 John Locke Foundation report “The New Raleigh Convention Center: A taxpayer-funded money pit.”
County governments all over North Carolina are saving money by privatizing services. In an effort to assist in the exchange of information about these activities, the John Locke Foundation conducted a survey of all 100 counties asking county managers to tell us about governmental activities that they currently supply privately. We also asked them if they had problems in the past with a privatized activity that had caused them to return the activity to government provision.
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