We told you earlier about a mysterious provision in the secretly-negotiated state budget that stripped Dare County towns of their power to regulate the construction of new low-income housing within
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A group of folks from North Carolina, who have been lobbying the General Assembly for a few years now to lease privately-owned school buildings (which may, um, *coincidentally*
Continue readingRemember the guys who were seeking the General Assembly’s permission to use government money to develop school buildings (with a bunch of solar panels on them, of course) that can
Continue readingA North Carolina developer tied to the solar goons who pushed hard — and successfully — on Jones Street to allow local governments to use tax money to lease privately-owned
Continue readingIt looks like SB554 — a provision to allow local school systems to lease facilities from private developers — is on its way to reality. Normally, we’re big fans of
Continue readingA group called Robeson for Advancement has been identified in driveby media reports as a leading force in the lobbying effort to get SB554 — authorizing a build/lease program
Continue readingRobeson County is arguably one of the poorest, most crime-ridden locales in the state. That’s why it is so strange that some of the biggest political names in North Carolina
Continue readingOn the face of it, SB554 sounds like a nice, innovative idea — leasing school buildngs under creative financing schemes to cash-strapped county systems around the state. But outgoing treasurer
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