|
A nation once dismissed as ungovernable is suddenly at the center of regional attention.
Published: Thursday, April 9th, 2026 @ 4:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
The John Locke Foundation is supporting a New Bern eye surgeon's legal fight against North Carolina's certificate-of-need restrictions on healthcare providers.
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2024 @ 11:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a New Bern eye surgeon's legal challenge against North Carolina's certificate-of-need law.
Published: Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 @ 1:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
John Locke Foundation CEO Donald Bryson is one of the initial signers of the Freedom Conservatism Statement of Principles, a new document unveiled Thursday.
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 7:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
N.C. Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. says the state's highest court continues to wrestle with property rights protection tied to the "fruits of their own labor" clause in the state constitution.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 4:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
The New Bern eye surgeon challenging North Carolina's certificate-of-need law in court is taking interest in the N.C. Supreme Court's decision in a separate case.
Published: Sunday, April 30th, 2023 @ 1:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
The Index of Economic Freedom published annually by researchers at the Heritage Foundation indicated on Monday that the degree of liberty offered by the American economy has continued to decline over the past year.
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 12:35 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
I’m a long-time activist. I started a Tea Party group in 2009 in my area of North Carolina and have been running it ever since.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Diane Rufino
|
|
A New Bern eye surgeon is asking the N.C. Supreme Court to take up his lawsuit challenging the state's certificate-of-need law.
Published: Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 @ 1:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
The case of a fired Durham police sergeant gives the N.C. Supreme Court a chance to consider constitutional protection of economic liberty.
Published: Thursday, March 24th, 2022 @ 8:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
The N.C. Constitution’s protection of economic liberty could help a fired Durham police sergeant in his lawsuit against the city. A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has overturned a trial court’s ruling against the fired officer.
Published: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 7:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
An eastern N.C.-based food truck owner is going to court to challenge a steep increase in the cost of doing business in Farmville.
Published: Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 @ 9:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
After splitting along party lines just twice in their first six months together, the current lineup of the N.C. Supreme Court has produced four more 4-3 partisan splits today.
Published: Thursday, September 2nd, 2021 @ 9:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
If you ever needed proof that corporate cronyism is a timeless practice, here’s a story for you.
Published: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021 @ 9:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Greensboro and Charlotte also did well, coming in at 35th and 38th respectively.
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 @ 1:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
As the 2020 election season gathers momentum, North Carolina's tax reforms and demands for higher spending on any number of government programs will be front and center.
Published: Friday, November 29th, 2019 @ 10:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
There’s no N.C. equivalent to the celebration surrounding national Constitution Day. Perhaps it’s a good idea to start one.
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 @ 11:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
I recently had a series of wonderful chats with Dr. Greg Murphy, who is running for the US Congress, from North Carolina's district 3.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 11:12 am
By: Diane Rufino
|
|
Dr. Gajendra Singh wants to help patients get an MRI scan for a fraction of the price hospitals and big health care networks charge. But state regulators and powerful lobbying allies restrain him.
Published: Friday, August 31st, 2018 @ 10:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
A new law in Carolina Beach cracking down on food trucks will be served in court.
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2018 @ 10:04 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: Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 @ 5:56 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: Saturday, July 7th, 2018 @ 6:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
On the news we often hear commentators compare other countries to the United States, the premise being that we have a more free country.
Published: Sunday, May 20th, 2018 @ 10:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
|
|
For half a century, making any reform to a state's occupational licensing system has been nigh on impossible
Published: Thursday, May 25th, 2017 @ 2:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Craft brewers say North Carolina is suppressing growth and have filed a complaint saying that two state laws are unconstitutional and nothing more than economic protectionism
Published: Tuesday, May 16th, 2017 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Orange County Commissioner Barry Jacobs says the county has a duty to help Americans lose weight and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, so he wants to preserve a drive-thru business window ban
Published: Monday, September 19th, 2016 @ 5:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
I recently had the honor of speaking in favor of occupational licensing reform before a legislative oversight committee.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 @ 6:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Last week I had the honor of speaking in favor of occupational licensing reform before a legislative oversight committee (you can view my presentation here)...
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 5:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
In October the NC State Bar and LegalZoom, Inc. announced a settlement in their long-running dispute over the latter's online, self-help, legal document service. As Ben Barton describes it at Bloomberg's Big Law Business blog, the terms of that settlement constitute a win for LegalZoom and its...
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 11:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
In recent years, the microbrew industry in North Carolina has come into conflict with state regulations artificially limiting the growth of an otherwise booming business model. Specifically, North Carolina law mandates that a microbrewery may only distribute and sell its own beer if it sells less...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:26 am
By: Civitas Insitute
|
|
In recent weeks, conservative legal scholar Kurt Lash and libertarian legal scholar Damon Root have treated readers to a lively online debate about how best to interpret Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, which reads
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 1:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Over the course of the last two weeks, conservative legal scholar Kurt Lash and libertarian legal scholar Damon Root have treated readers to a lively online debate about how best to interpret Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, which reads...
Published: Tuesday, July 21st, 2015 @ 1:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|