|
The ink is dry, but the howling from the Left continues. The 2017 tax reform law is in place and working as advertised - lower personal and corporate taxes, more money in the pockets of Americans, repatriation of billions of dollars of corporate profit, and an economy that will be robust
Published: Saturday, March 24th, 2018 @ 9:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Saturday, March 24th, 2018 @ 2:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
The N.C. Court of Appeals released three separate rulings in Map Act cases, dealing another blow to the North Carolina Department of Transportation
Published: Saturday, March 24th, 2018 @ 2:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Voters in numerous North Carolina counties will vote for more than candidates in their districts
Published: Friday, March 23rd, 2018 @ 6:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Craft brewers are waiting to learn whether a lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement of the state's distribution cap and franchise laws will proceed
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 @ 9:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
If you are a political junkie, you follow closely the daily ins and outs of elections and legislation
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
John Lewis, a Republican recently named to the Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement, says the eight-member board - set to hold its first meeting at 8 a.m. Wednesday - should have more time before recommending its ninth member
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 @ 4:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Southside Ashpole Elementary is one step closer to having an Innovative School District operator
Published: Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 @ 11:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 @ 7:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
News flash: Republicans often use fear of Democratic politicians and policies to motivate the GOP base
Published: Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 @ 5:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
The University of North Carolina is in good shape, but the 17-school system is ever in need of improvement
Published: Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 @ 3:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
The public is in a surly mood. According to a January poll by Gallup, only 38 percent of Americans said they were satisfied with how well “the U.S. system of government works.”
Published: Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 @ 1:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed four Democrats and four Republicans to the new merged board overseeing state elections and ethics enforcement
Published: Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 @ 10:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Isn't "modern conservatism" a contradiction in terms? That's one of the questions I received after teaching a seminar at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy entitled "Modern Conservatism and Policy."
Published: Sunday, March 18th, 2018 @ 11:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Liberals like small homes that are close to shopping and attractions, while conservatives prefer to have larger properties and drive longer distances to the store
Published: Sunday, March 18th, 2018 @ 12:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
House Minority Leader Darren Jackson, D-Wake, says Gov. Roy Cooper was within his constitutional authority to create a $57.8 million side deal to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Published: Saturday, March 17th, 2018 @ 4:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Typically, "saving American jobs" is the reason given for implementing protectionist trade measures, i.e., tariffs and quotas. The argument goes something like this: foreign producers of a product are offering American consumers a more attractive price or better quality product than they can get fro
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 8:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) is working again to level the playing field for Eastern North Carolina shark fishermen
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 3:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
A committee studying school district divisions has raised more questions so far than it has answered.
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
It seems like all public officials celebrate transparency, until it applies to them
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 4:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Gov. Roy Cooper has filed suit against state legislative leaders again, on the same day the N.C. Supreme Court rejected his bid to throw out a new merged state ethics and elections board
Published: Thursday, March 15th, 2018 @ 7:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
The state legislature regularly draws fire for its decision to end an old, very generous tax break for film and TV production and replace it with a smaller, more-targeted grant program
Published: Thursday, March 15th, 2018 @ 10:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
On Tuesday, I received a call from school officials informing parents of activities for a "national school walkout," planned in response to the recent deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida
Published: Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 @ 9:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
The state Republican Party has asked for a federal investigation of the side deal struck between the Cooper administration and the utilities that will operate the $5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Published: Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 @ 5:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, says an ethics complaint filed against him by a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit research organization is tainted by election-season politics
Published: Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 @ 1:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Medicaid is the largest spending item of the roughly $53 billion flowing through state coffers this year, yet state policymakers have minimal control over the program
Published: Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 @ 12:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Each February, the State Treasurer’s Debt Affordability Advisory Committee preempts the hopefulness of Groundhog Day with the publication of the annual Debt Affordability Study, the committee’s reminder that state government resources are limited
Published: Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 @ 4:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Recent discussion about arming teachers in N.C. public schools offers a helpful reminder: Arguments based on straw men tend to go nowhere fast
Published: Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 @ 11:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
State Rep. John Szoka, R-Cumberland, is worried $92 million from a national Volkswagen consent decree over Clean Air Act violations might get tangled up in another separation-of-powers showdown between Gov. Roy Cooper and the General Assembly
Published: Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 @ 12:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
A majority of North Carolina public school teachers think carrying a gun in the classroom is a bad idea, a recent Elon University Poll shows
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 7:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
That's what Dr. Erin Fraher, health workforce expert at University of North Carolina, had to say to lawmakers at a recent subcommittee meeting that examined how government funds are distributed to help teaching hospitals pay for physician residency programs
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 10:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Tracing the ownership of the land hosting a Nash County solar farm built on a former cow pasture is complicated business
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 9:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|