However, the effect on the rest of the country is negative, with taxpayers shouldering the cost of these pork-barrel projects without receiving the benefits. Pork-barrel spending is when taxpayer ...

As I’ve pointed out repeatedly since last fall, the General Assembly may face some tough decisions over the 2025-27 budget ...

Known by its detractors as pork-barrel politics, the approach has long been a favorite among those seeking dams, federal buildings and highways. Since 1983, however, it has become the favored route ...

They claim that the last legislature saw local funding that went unnoticed in large state budgets, and they also claim their goal is to put local money toward local projects again. "It's not our ...

His zeal to expose anomalies, especially in government projects that have been and will likely be funded by the pork barrel in this 2025 National Budget comes from what he has learned in the Holy ...

North Carolina is one of several states announcing select committees or other projects mimicking the ... to local governments and nonprofits — pork-barrel spending, to put it bluntly.