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Neighbors Rally Against High Speed Rail Option

Raleigh, N.C. - Neighbors in Raleigh's Five Points district are standing up against an option to bring President Obama's high speed rail through their backyards.

The option is called NC-3. It would run trains down the west side of Capital Blvd. into downtown Raleigh. It would also hinder Norfolk Southern's ability to move freight in eastern North Carolina.

The option would use eminent domain to seize homes and businesses in order to make room for the faster trains. Neighbors able to keep their homes worry about property values and quality of life if the train rides the NC-3 option.

City planners recommend the option. Neighbors say that's because it works better with the city's plan to build a $212 million Union Station in downtown.

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JLF's Daren Bakst debunks the argument that solar power is less expensive than nuclear power

Daren Bakst, John Locke Foundation director of legal and regulatory studies, discusses a new report that challenges an "absurd" study from an anti-nuclear power advocacy group about the relative costs of nuclear and solar power. These comments are tied to the report Costs of Nuclear Vs. Solar: It's No Contest.

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N.C. History Project's Troy Kickler discusses 'North Carolina's Role in a Limited Revolution' (1 of 4)

An introduction from Dr. Michael Sanera leads into a lecture from Dr. Troy Kickler, N.C. History Project director, titled "North Carolina's Role in a Limited Revolution." This is the first of four lectures in the John Locke Foundation/N.C. History Project event "A Citizens' Constitutional Workshop: What the Founders and the State Ratification Conventions Can Teach Us Today," scheduled Aug. 7, 2010, in Raleigh.

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On the Record

N.C. GOP chairman renews push for top elections officials to step down

N.C. Republican Party chairman Tom Fetzer urges State Board of Elections chairman Larry Leake and executive director Gary Bartlett to resign. Fetzer also calls on Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue to help speed that process. Fetzer delivered these remarks during an Aug. 6, 2010, news conference at state GOP headquarters in Raleigh.

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Air Wars

JLF's John Hood explains alternatives to new laws targeting drivers' cell phone use

John Locke Foundation President John Hood doubts that new laws represent the best way to limit drivers' cell phone use. Hood offered these comments for the WRAL documentary "Focal Point: Fatal Distraction," which premiered Aug. 26, 2010.

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2 September 2010, 12:52 pm

The ideological roots of our latest eco-terrorist

The views of James Lee, the eco-progressive that took his ideology to the barricades at the Discovery Channel yesterday--and then gave his life for the cause--are apparently well grounded in environmentalist tradition. Lee seemed to be well aware of his ideological roots. After all, one of his demands was that the Discovery Channel "develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences." Richard...

2 September 2010, 12:40 pm

Labor Day predictions

From Larry Sabato US House: GOP +47 net US Senate: GOP +8 net, with an "outside shot" at +10 Governors: GOP +8...

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Sep 02, 2010

The Race Was Fixed

When North Carolina lost in the first round of grants from the Obama administration's $4.35 billion Race to the Top education initiative, state policymakers did little to embrace the reforms Washington suggested would provide a better chance to win funding the second time around.

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Higher-Speed Rail Advocates Clueless

One of the biggest problems with American transportation policy is that many policymakers really don't have a clue.

Aug 20, 2010

Powerful Interests Push Young People Toward Socialism

Why do young Americans see socialism in a favorable light? In an age when massive amounts of information are only a computer click away, how is this group so ignorant about the imprisonment and murder of millions of people in a multitude of countries by socialists?

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Aug 10, 2010

Sometimes the news is not where it should be

When the news is buried, is it accidental or on purpose?

Jul 30, 2010

Finding all bias in a newspaper is tough for an editor

Sometimes little examples of bias can just sneak by the most diligent of editors.

Jun 27, 2010

N&O needs remedial instruction on First Amendment

The editors dedicated roughly two-thirds of a piece ostensibly about the ethics bill before the short session of the General Assembly into a diatribe on the public-financing provision that was axed.

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