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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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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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Walk into a commercial hair salon and you’ll find your stylist’s state license on the wall or the counter.
Published: Sunday, February 13th, 2022 @ 7:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At Alexander Paul Institute of Hair Design in Greenville, N.C., students are looking toward the future. Here they learn to cut, curl, and color hair, but also tend to customers and build their client base.
Published: Monday, September 27th, 2021 @ 11:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed the state’s decision to award InSight Health Corp. a certificate of need for a mobile PET/CT scanner.
Published: Thursday, August 26th, 2021 @ 4:03 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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The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted to cut $40 million from the federal Charter Schools Program, in a major policy shift away from the bipartisan support that charter schools have enjoyed in recent years.
Published: Friday, August 6th, 2021 @ 3:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Stabilizing braces on firearms are designed for disabled gun owners
Published: Thursday, August 5th, 2021 @ 5:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Several bills to help N.C. distillers and to loosen alcohol regulation in the state are moving through the General Assembly.
Published: Thursday, June 24th, 2021 @ 12:26 am
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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Free-market advocates in North Carolina are optimistic the relaxing of regulations in the state will help promote the growth of broadband and help close the digital divide.
Published: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021 @ 6:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New research finds that federal regulation leads to an increase in deaths, and North Carolina is one of the states most affected.
Published: Sunday, January 17th, 2021 @ 4:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As of November, North Carolina’s state government has some $4 billion in unreserved cash in its General Fund, plus well north of $1 billion in its rainy-day account and other reserves.
Published: Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 @ 12:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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It will help the economy recover.
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 @ 6:26 am
By: LifeZette
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The NCGOP applauds the Rules Commission’s unanimous rejection of the election law changes proposed by the State Board of Elections
Published: Sunday, May 24th, 2020 @ 1:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
Search Terms: ncgop chairman statement rules commission election regulation decision may 22 2020 |
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In the latest case where a male student sued his college over the unfair procedures it used to expel him, Colgate University in New York will go to trial.
Published: Thursday, May 21st, 2020 @ 11:12 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Representative Kidwell has drafted Legislation that if passed by the General Assembly will put a Constitutional Amendment on the ballot in November.
Published: Saturday, May 2nd, 2020 @ 2:42 am
By: Keith D Kidwell
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Most states are following the president's reopening guidelines.
Published: Wednesday, April 29th, 2020 @ 11:50 am
By: LifeZette
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North Carolina has rolled back many regulations in health care during the Coronavirus outbreak.
Published: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 @ 4:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
Search Terms: john locke foundation health care deregulation coronavirus covid-19 april 17 2020 cvd19 |
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The coronavirus did what years of lawmaking and lawsuits failed to do — pushed North Carolina to temporarily waive barriers on telemedicine and the controversial certificate of need laws that restrict the supply of health care.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2020 @ 2:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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What comes to mind when you think of the term “health care delivery?” Most people probably think of entities like doctors’ offices, insurers, hospitals, and pharmacies.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 @ 10:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
Search Terms: carolina journal health care delivery regulations february 14 2020 |
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The clock is ticking on hemp licenses for North Carolina farmers.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2020 @ 5:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina is grappling with systemic shortages in mental health care, and regulations are making it worse — often disproportionately hurting veterans and the state’s most vulnerable residents.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2020 @ 9:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
Search Terms: carolina journal regulations mental health access shortages january 31 2020 |
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President Donald J. Trump is modernizing environmental regulations to deliver infrastructure projects that will improve our communities.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2020 @ 11:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a $5 billion tax increase, his Republican rivals would be both furious and gleeful — furious about the potential economic consequences, that is, and gleeful about the political ones.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 @ 6:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
Search Terms: carolina journal regulation taxes governor roy cooper october 23 2019 |
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Since taking office, President Donald J. Trump has led historic deregulation efforts to roll back red tape that burdened Americans and stifled economic growth.
Published: Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019 @ 1:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On August 17, 2001, the President issued Executive Order 13222 pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.).
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2019 @ 12:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Ever since the end of Prohibition over eight decades ago, North Carolina has been a "control" state for liquor.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
Search Terms: economic growth & development rights & regulation |
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A bill that would ease restrictive regulations on N.C. craft distillers is closer to becoming law.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ 11:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
Search Terms: craft distillery new bill senate house restrictive regulations june 25 2019 |
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Just days after warning of the need to regulate solar panel disposal, Sen. Paul Newton, R-Cabarrus, scrapped his bill for a relaxed version.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 10:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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
Search Terms: overregulation general assembly landfill ban |
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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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Legislative opponents of certificate of need laws are confident. This may be the year they prevail against the restrictive health-care regulations.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 6:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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