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lifting the burden of overregulation
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2025 @ 8:27 am
By: John Steed
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will target government overregulation and waste of administrative state
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2024 @ 11:49 am
By: John Steed
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The administration of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed the Biden administration Thursday evening after the administration proposed new regulations that would prohibit schools from enforcing bans on trans-identifying males in girls sports.
Published: Saturday, April 8th, 2023 @ 10:31 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina’s administrative code is cluttered with over 1,000 rules whose authorizing statutes have been repealed
Published: Saturday, March 25th, 2023 @ 7:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) cautioned the British government on Tuesday as officials moved to cut taxes and regulations, arguing that the agenda will worsen inflationary pressures.
Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 @ 10:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Shrimping in North Carolina has problems alright, but they're entirely different problems from the ones the likes of CCA dreams up. The biggest problem is that commercial fishermen who shrimp are being driven out of business by over regulation.
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 3:18 am
By: Raynor James
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N.C. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed 11 bills into law Thursday, the closely-watched state budget was not one of them.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 6:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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There are concerns over Big Tech policing itself and putting freedom of speech at risk, but what about overregulation from the government and calls for treating social media companies like utilities?
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2022 @ 7:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Sport's governing body rules cyclist is not currently compliant with its regulations
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 7:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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If lawmaking power is supposed to be forever separate from the powers of the executive branch, then how is it that state agencies can create what amount to laws?
Published: Monday, March 7th, 2022 @ 4:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Cases involving a high-profile political activist and a controversial state medical regulation await the N.C. Court of Appeals as it returns to regular in-person hearings this week.
Published: Monday, August 16th, 2021 @ 1:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new state law streamlines permitting for hog farms that capture biogas, and it moves some control over farming regulations to the local level.
Published: Sunday, July 18th, 2021 @ 3:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When is losing the entire value of your property due to government regulation, not an “undue hardship”?
Published: Thursday, May 6th, 2021 @ 7:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As a Representative who has been a small business owner for over 35 years, I have an understanding of what impact laws and regulations have on small businesses.
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020 @ 9:02 pm
By: Keith D Kidwell
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Editors at the Washington Examiner decry “the petty tyrants in your shower,” exposing a clear case of federal government overregulation.
Published: Wednesday, August 19th, 2020 @ 1:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Ron DeSantis does not want to pay twice for the same political real estate.
Published: Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 @ 4:55 pm
By: LifeZette
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Last week, Governor Cooper violated his own executive order by walking outside his gated mansion and marching with the protesters.
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2020 @ 3:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A small group of N.C. voters are suing the state and the N.C. State Board of Elections over absentee voting regulations, but demands in the lawsuit may lead to election fraud, or the appearance thereof, legal and political analysts say.
Published: Saturday, May 9th, 2020 @ 5:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Fiery arguments over hemp regulation smoldered out Wednesday, July 24, when House members reversed feverish efforts to criminalize the plant’s smokable flower.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 12:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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An occupational license is a special kind of government regulation known as an entry regulation.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sometimes, when trying to explain how a political issue is a thorny mess, I've used the phrase "public-choice problem." Recent examples include such issues as occupational licensing, film incentives, government favoritism for renewable energy, even funeral regulations.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 11:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans made many changes when they came into the majority of the General Assembly, but one of their most important is one of the least known.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 @ 6:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While North Carolina continues to seek ways to fill medical provider voids across the state, government regulations block one partial solution.
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2019 @ 4:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Scene: Downtown Raleigh, 2018. There's a new feature on the roads and - though they're not supposed to - sidewalks. Young men and women in professional attire zipping by at lunchtime in electric-powered scooters.
Published: Friday, April 5th, 2019 @ 8:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper issued several executive orders waiving enforcement of transportation-related regulations to help the agriculture industry prepare for Hurricane Florence
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2018 @ 3:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's great to have everybody and have a little meeting. We're going to go over deregulation and some other things.
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2018 @ 7:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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My wife is angry at the government. No surprise there, I suppose - we do have a great deal in common
Published: Wednesday, September 19th, 2018 @ 1:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a familiar kind of political argument that goes something like this: "I know we are politically divided. I think that partisanship has its place - but surely there is no need to make [fill in the blank] a partisan issue."
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2018 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Impulsive legislative action over four infant deaths at a Cary natural birth center operated by midwives could limit access to a healthy, lower-cost alternative for expectant mothers, says one of North Carolina's top nurse midwives
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 4:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A measure “throttling” the costliest new government regulations could have unintended consequences, critics say. For example, House Bill 162 might have stopped the General Assembly from forcing schools to collect vaccination reports on sixth-grade students.
Published: Thursday, January 18th, 2018 @ 12:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Federal officials must set limits for GenX and other emerging contaminants so that North Carolina can permanently control its discharge and ensure the safety of its drinking water, Governor Roy Cooper today told the U.S Environmental Protection Agency
Published: Monday, July 17th, 2017 @ 3:47 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Over Democrats’ objections, on Thursday the Republican-controlled House passed Senate Bill 68, merging the state’s ethics and elections boards, along with some lobbying regulations
Published: Sunday, July 9th, 2017 @ 12:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joining other Governors, Mayors, colleges and universities, and businesses, Governor Cooper declared that North Carolina will continue efforts to reduce pollution in support of the global Paris Agreement
Published: Tuesday, June 6th, 2017 @ 10:18 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Cooper has signed the following bills into law
Published: Wednesday, May 24th, 2017 @ 8:01 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Additional Oversight Of Charter High Schools Unnecessary (For Now)
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2017 @ 9:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In what had once been a land of opportunity and progress, the state had grown large and oppressive. Its leaders lost their way. Its people nearly lost their freedom
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2017 @ 4:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Relationships should be built upon voluntary choice, promoting mutual respect and mutually beneficial outcomes
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 9:05 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Government regulation is a subject as dry as the desert sands to most people.
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 @ 11:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The arrival of summer means vacation time for many, and airports stay busy. While we think of domestic airline service as being deregulated, the reality is that government decisions still play a role in where airlines fly
Published: Thursday, September 1st, 2016 @ 11:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Often the best thing government can do is get out of the way. We've seen the results of that type of approach over the last six years with less government regulation, fewer taxes and greater access to free markets
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2016 @ 4:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Budget writers working on the state's 2016-17 spending plan received the OK to increase the amount of money to open new psychiatric beds around the state from $12 million to $18 million, using proceeds from the sale of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh, while eliminating a controversial regulation.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2016 @ 1:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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