North Carolina maintains one of the nation's most restrictive versions of the Map Act, which can freeze property development within proposed road corridors for years. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report documents one Forsyth County case in which Map Act restrictions have limited private...
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) issued the following response to the Obama administration's statement of opposition to S. 1926, the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014.
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 1:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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For 20 years, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington-based Heritage Foundation have produced international indexes of economic freedom. Countries that adopt fiscal restraint and free trade, protect the rights of contract and property ownership, and avoid excessive taxes or regulations earn...
Published: Thursday, January 16th, 2014 @ 5:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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NC 20 learned earlier today that NC Department of Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has reached a settlement agreement with the NC Rate Bureau on the Homeowners Insurance Rate Filing that was submitted in October 2012.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2013 @ 9:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I admit it. I'm crazy about my dogs. And yes, they're getting Christmas presents - chew bones for Johnny, and tennis balls for Tony and Dentley.
Published: Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 @ 10:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Five months after state lawmakers passed a law freeing food truck owners from a regulation that required them to rent space in a restaurant or commissary, no food truck operator has taken advantage of it.
Published: Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 @ 5:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the better part of a century, U.S. politicians have made it one of their major goals to maximize the proportion of Americans who purchase rather than rent their primary dwellings.
Published: Thursday, June 14th, 2012 @ 8:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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