Since 2010, when voters put Republicans in charge of most state governments across the United States, North Carolina became one of about a half-dozen states where conservative reformers have frequently - and sometimes spectacularly - faced off with progressives in ways that have attracted significan
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 @ 12:36 am
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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We're ending intrusive EPA regulations that kill jobs, hurt family farmers and ranchers, and raise the price of energy so quickly and so substantially.
Published: Friday, December 15th, 2017 @ 10:59 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, received notification from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that they would not force U.S. institutions to follow the new European MiFID II regulations
Published: Friday, October 27th, 2017 @ 3:19 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) joined six of his congressional colleagues in urging the Trump administration to restore fishing access off the coast of the Northeastern United States
Published: Friday, June 16th, 2017 @ 6:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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An effort to raise the number of barrels North Carolina's craft brewers can produce before they have to procure a distributor has failed
Published: Tuesday, April 25th, 2017 @ 4:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some things are clear - lower taxes, fewer regulations, skilled workers, and efficient infrastructure lead to economic growth
Published: Monday, April 3rd, 2017 @ 5:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-03) continued his opposition to expansion of the marine sanctuary system off the Atlantic Coast.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 10:33 pm
By: Russell Allen
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement after a federal appeals court ruling.
Published: Thursday, August 11th, 2016 @ 2:35 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Imagine a college student who has just formed a student group. In order to generate interest in this group, the student goes to the student union and passes out flyers for the inaugural meeting
Published: Thursday, July 21st, 2016 @ 5:04 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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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
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After the Supreme Court sided with North Carolina and 26 other states, halting the implementation of the EPA's overreaching power plant rules, NCGOP Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse released the following statement...
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2016 @ 1:48 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Roy Cooper is not doing his job as attorney general and hard-working North Carolinians are paying the price. By siding with Washington, D.C. and not fighting the federal government's crushing regulations, Roy Cooper is punishing everyone from teachers to nurses to seniors on fixed incomes by...
Published: Sunday, January 31st, 2016 @ 1:44 am
By: McCrory Communications
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In Part 1, we examined how our legal system developed to the point where a statutory framework that blatantly favors one class of businesses over another is constitutionally permissible. Using the historical example of Nebbia v. New York, we saw that the Court altered its jurisprudence to become...
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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
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This report is an attempt to identify the scope and cost of regulations in the state of North Carolina in a manner more comprehensive than the surveys offered by business climate indices. By these measures, North Carolina's record is mixed in terms of regulatory burden depending on the measure used.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 12:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State regulations cost North Carolina at least $3.1 billion and as much as $25 billion each year, according to a new economic analysis compiled for the John Locke Foundation. JLF is releasing the analysis along with its own report recommending a new tool to fight state regulatory overreach
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 9:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory said today the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new regulations on electric power plants will increase power bills for North Carolina consumers and threaten job creation while doing little to improve the state's air quality.
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2015 @ 11:59 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted in favor of legislation that would require congressional approval of federal rules that impose significant burdens on the American economy. H.R. 427.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 6:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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New research from the Institute for Energy Research shows more than ever before how the Obama administration's approach to energy policy is fulfilling the president's 2008 vision of "necessarily skyrocket[ing]" electricity rates.
Published: Sunday, July 19th, 2015 @ 7:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"'It was a nightmare': Man warns NC homeowners about little-known land rule," blared a headline from WRAL this week. Here is a snippet from the story...
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 3:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Six times as many drones could be flying above our heads as commercial airplanes within the next five years. Growth in use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, is generating increased interest in safety and regulatory issues.
Published: Friday, June 5th, 2015 @ 12:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After a measure introduced in last year's legislative session allowing more investors to get in at the early stages of startup companies failed to become law, competing bills have been filed in the current session encouraging entrepreneurs to seek capital through options resembling...
Published: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 @ 11:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While Obamacare continues to flood the health care sector with more taxes and mandates, it's simultaneously driving insurers and health care providers to increase price transparency. Because the law's pricey regulations are either driving employers to push more benefit cost sharing onto employees...
Published: Monday, February 16th, 2015 @ 4:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gas prices fell below $2.00 a gallon in much of state this month, providing North Carolinians with some extra cash in their pockets to pay off those Christmas credit card bills.
Published: Monday, February 16th, 2015 @ 2:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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It is easy to understand why North Carolina hospitals are adamant about keeping the state's certificate-of-need regulations locked in the law books.
Published: Monday, December 15th, 2014 @ 2:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"The NeverEnding Story" is a 1984 film loosely based on a fantasy novel by the German author Michael Ende. The story centers on the story a boy, Bastian, is reading about a land called Fantasia that is being erased by ... nothing.
Published: Saturday, November 22nd, 2014 @ 10:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If Food and Drug Administration regulators adopt new regulations that would place premium, hand-made cigars under the jurisdiction of a law originally passed to regulate cigarettes, sellers of the premium cigars say the changes could put them out of business.
Published: Wednesday, September 10th, 2014 @ 8:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have been part of seemingly countless curriculum committees over the past six years, and I have read hundreds of course syllabi. It seems there are two competing trends in academia when it comes to syllabi.
Published: Friday, September 5th, 2014 @ 4:21 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Before an entrepreneur considers whether to expand his business or move to a new location, he typically goes through a checklist that includes most, if not all, of these items...
Published: Tuesday, July 15th, 2014 @ 10:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On June 11, several experts and agencies testified to the House Committee about the impacts of the Clean Water Act
Published: Monday, June 16th, 2014 @ 4:20 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Some businesses would rather avoid competition and prefer instead to rely on government help in the form of special incentives, regulations, or other anti-competitive policies. Fred Smith has spent his career fighting that approach to business. Smith is founder and chairman of the...
Published: Tuesday, May 13th, 2014 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Obama has announced that, through executive order, he will be changing the rules regarding which employees have to be given overtime pay for working more than 40 hours per week. Under current regulations, all hourly employees who work more than 40 hours must be paid...
Published: Friday, March 28th, 2014 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The year 2013 has seen significant reforms in North Carolina - to our tax system, job-killing regulations, transportation and infrastructure priorities, and education. The result will be substantive and meaningful changes in North Carolina. We will be positioned to recover from the recession more
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 12:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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