Some Republican members of the N.C. Council of State used a meeting Tuesday, Aug. 3, to underscore the challenges employers face in finding workers because, at least in part, of generous unemployment benefit payments from the federal government. “I’m sounding the alarm because we’re in an employment crisis in North…
North Carolina began the decade with too many consumers chasing too few housing units. Despite recent construction, we aren’t adding enough housing stock.
The general counsel to Gov. Roy Cooper is returning to private practice. William Crum McKinney worked with Cooper for nearly five years, and before that was special counsel to Cooper when he was N.C. attorney general. McKinney returns to his previous firm, Haynsworth…
State auditors found Roanoke-Chowan Community College issued more than $10.3 million in checks with invalid signatures between August 2019 and August 2020, putting the school at increased risk of fraud. A report released Friday by the Office of State Auditor Beth Wood said…
Update: On Tuesday, August 3, 2021, The Wake County School Board voted unanimously to require masks for kindergarten through twelfth-grade students for the Fall 2021 semester regardless of vaccine status. Given the freedom to choose whether to mandate masks for students, school boards across the state have begun…
Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Thursday, July 29, that, although statewide mask mandates will still expire July 30 according to recent guidance, his administration is launching vaccination verification requirements for Cabinet agencies and a general campaign to pressure other government entities and private businesses toward similar vaccination requirements. “This…
Brian Balfour, senior vice president of research at the John Locke Foundation, discusses misguided ideas for helping N.C. workers. Learn more here: “Progressive recommendations would harm, not help, hourly workers.”…
Jon Sanders, senior fellow in regulatory studies and research editor at the John Locke Foundation, analyzes the dispute involving licensing of reflexologists in North Carolina. Learn more here: “How an overzealous licensing board’s threat shows the need for licensing reform.”…
Things are quiet this week on Jones Street in Raleigh, even as work on a state budget plan, which the governor may or may not sign, looms in the legislature. The N.C. Senate on June 25 approved its budget proposal, supported by all Republicans…
The voices of those urging government officials to rely on individual liberty and personality responsibility as the founding principles relate to getting the COVID vaccine are getting louder. While conservative politicians in North Carolina and throughout the U.S. are urging people to get the shot, which…
