Given the freedom to choose whether to mandate masks for students, school boards across the state have begun voting to make face coverings optional for the coming school year. More than two dozen districts took votes over the past week on mask policies, with decisions splitting…
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…
Senate leader Phil Berger is drawing attention to his concerns about the latest federal health guidance on COVID-19 and masks. “We should be relieved, not panicked,” Berger’s office declares in the headline of a Thursday news release. “Fewer North Carolinians died from COVID during the entire month of July than…
President Biden is expected to announce Thursday, July 29, that all federal employees must be vaccinated or submit to rigorous COVID testing. That would include members of the military. The White House Office and Management already announced an employee mask mandate in all federal buildings. The announcement would come the…
A bill that advocates say would boost access to dentistry, especially in the state’s rural areas, is sailing through the General Assembly. Senate Bill 146, sponsored by Sen. Jim Perry, R-Lenoir, has received nearly unanimous support in both chambers. After minor revisions in…
We expect health care providers to focus on improving people’s lives. It’s bad news when government rules prompt those providers to shift their focus away from helping people. It’s especially bad when government encourages health care providers to act more like bullies than healers. But that’s exactly what can happen…
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recommendation of vaccine mandates. King offered these comments during the July 16, 2021, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”…
Gov. Roy Cooper this year said his administration was exploring the development of a vaccine passport for residents. “We want to be able to help people to be able to show others that they have gotten the vaccine because a lot of people are going to want that,” the governor…
Jon Sanders, senior fellow in regulatory studies and research editor at the John Locke Foundation, discusses a recent N.C. court case that highlights flaws in the certificate-of-need process. Learn more here: “‘Need’? Health consumers don’t need so much time wasted, money spent on CON shenanigans.”…
The purpose of the certificate-of-need law, according to the state health department, is to restrict “unnecessary cost increases” and “limit unnecessary services” in health care across the state. But it may do the opposite, limiting access and stifling competition. The law prohibits health care providers from acquiring,…
