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Over the course of 34 years penning a column on North Carolina politics and public policy, I’ve seen it all.
Published: Monday, November 16th, 2020 @ 12:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Public Policy Polling released a new poll reflecting a divide among North Carolinians over the 2020 elections for president and governor.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 11:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It's easy to endorse evidence-based policymaking when you assume it will reinforce your existing beliefs, and to assume that your adversaries are the ones whose policies will fail the evidentiary test.
Published: Saturday, January 5th, 2019 @ 3:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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any discussion of public policy, I think it is impossible to talk intelligently about questions like "good enough" or "fair enough" without asking first "by what standard?"
Published: Saturday, May 5th, 2018 @ 11:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The United States spends more on health care than any other industrialized country but doesn't get better results, as measured by average life expectancy
Published: Wednesday, April 18th, 2018 @ 4:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Peer pressure has been the reason, or at least the rationalization, for many a youthful indiscretion - not that I would know from personal experience
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 @ 3:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you believe the political debate in North Carolina and the rest of the country has grown coarse, predictable, and unproductive, you're not alone
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2017 @ 10:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Government shouldn't pick winners and losers."
Published: Thursday, May 11th, 2017 @ 10:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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NC NAACP President William Barber has popped into the news again, as he tries to do whenever TV cameras are turned on
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2016 @ 11:44 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Try something new? I'm all for it. But whether you are talking about changing your diet, changing your career, or changing your government's public policy, it's often a good idea to proceed in stages.
Published: Monday, August 15th, 2016 @ 3:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina features "undoubtedly the premier governor's race of the country" for 2016, and if the election were held today GOP Gov. Pat McCrory would be re-elected despite shaky approval ratings, said Tom Jensen, director of the Raleigh-based firm Public Policy Polling.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 6:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As government agencies continue to push for growth, with the help of their special-interest allies and mainstream media outlets, advocates for free markets and limited government have to work hard to get their messages heard in the public policy debate.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that if we discuss a problem long enough we can come up with a solution? It doesn't work that way with public policy issues, especially in the selection of judges.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 @ 4:43 am
By: Tom Campbell
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One of my favorite modern historians, the late Rufus Fears at the University of Oklahoma, was fond of saying that “ideas make history.”
Published: Friday, October 10th, 2014 @ 7:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public Policy Polling is out with some new numbers on the highly-watched US Senate race here in good ol' NC.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 12:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ideas drive public policy. During the last couple of years, North Carolina has begun to implement sound ideas to reform taxes, transportation, regulation, energy, education, Medicaid, and more. Good policy leads to more economic freedom, and that leads North Carolina in the right direction.
Published: Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 @ 12:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Part of my job involves commissioning, reading, interpreting, and writing about public policy research. As I began researching my 2012 book on North Carolina's economy, Our Best Foot Forward, I found myself reading or re-reading dozens of scholarly studies, published in academic or professional...
Published: Sunday, September 1st, 2013 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is no public policy debate in which the language has been manipulated more than in the case of global warming. In fact, the language has been...
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 @ 7:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Is New York City a better place to work than Charlotte? It depends on your priorities. For many people, the Big Apple with all its glamour and glitz may be...
Published: Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 @ 5:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Whatever your political party or persuasion, you may think that North Carolina's many public-policy challenges reflect from a lack of knowledge on the part of policymakers and the general public.
Published: Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 @ 9:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The John Locke Foundation has long advocated privatization, outsourcing and competition as useful tools for building effective public policies.
Published: Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 @ 4:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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