Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s this week’s review: End of session: The General Assembly closed out the week with several failed attempts to override Gov. Roy…
The N.C. General Assembly was correct in voting — unanimously — to extend a deadline for businesses to renew state alcohol permits. The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, in response to the governor’s lockdown orders, set a grace period for bars, restaurants, and other venues to…
A N.C. Business Court judge is working through several cases against Gov. Roy Cooper from business owners seeking to reopen. Lawyers representing the governor have until close of business Wednesday, July 8, to file paperwork in the cases, Judge James Gale ordered. N.C. Attorney…
Jordan Roberts, John Locke Foundation health care policy analyst, discusses North Carolina’s Medicaid transformation law. Roberts offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
Bowling alleys in North Carolina can reopen, though bars, gyms, and amusement parks remain closed. N.C. Business Court Judge James Gale on Tuesday, July 7, granted a preliminary injunction to a bowlers’ group looking for relief after Gov. Roy Cooper closed…
The state of North Carolina requires more than 1,500 hours of training and a year of apprenticeship before a person can become a barber. Jon Sanders, John Locke Foundation director of regulatory studies, says those requirements stem from the racism that helped guide North Carolina’s earliest occupational licensing. Sanders discusses…
Chris Pope, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discusses his National Affairs article on “Fixing Private Health Insurance.” Pope offered these comments during an interview for the John Locke Foundation’s “HeadLocke” podcast.
This coronavirus isn’t going anywhere. It has burrowed deep into our communities, our hospitals, our psyches. It won’t magically disappear, despite all the wishing. The hoping and the dreaming. We’re hurting. In the eye of a hurricane it’s futile to try to assess the damage. We’re…
Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday signed a Medicaid transformation bill that ends years of wrangling with legislators over the issue. Transformation privatizes the management of the state’s Medicaid program. The state will pay five managed care companies $30 billion over five years to cover…
It’s trite to say the country is divided. It’s a presidential election year and the racially charged protests over police conduct ended whatever fleeting moment of national unity there was in the age of coronavirus. Splits along racial, generational, and ideological lines run deep, and much ink…
