The Program Evaluation Division has a compiled and released a comprehensive report that looks at how North Carolina regulates and controls liquor sales and offers ways and legislative options toward changing and modernizing the process. The thoughtful 59-page report, “Changing how North Carolina Controls…
Among many in the Democratic Party, attacking the rich is back in style. Some popular Democrats contend that large concentrations of wealth are, at best, unseemly and, at worst, absolutely immoral. From newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to possible presidential candidates, including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and New…
We don’t really live in rigidly separated “rural” places and “urban places,” and the largest share of North Carolinians live in places they and others would call suburban.
Making workers' labor more productive, through capital investment of various kinds, remains a better way to improve their well-being than hiking regulations or redistributing income.
It’s time to wake up, North Carolina. Enough is truly enough. In truth, it’s well past time lawmakers take substantive steps toward rewriting or eliminating much of the arcane laws governing alcohol, painfully documented in N.C. General Statute 18b. It runs nearly 150…
The governor’s behind it, and state Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen is for it. Some freshmen legislators have made it a priority, some leaders in the N.C. House think it’s a good idea, and 32 states have implemented a version of it. But does Medicaid expansion…
Human beings are social creatures, to be sure, but that doesn’t mean we automatically welcome being told what to do or treated as children.
The relative size of government has declined in most states since 2010, but North Carolina’s decline has exceeded the national and regional averages.
I made a presentation recently to a community GOP club, a group of kind people who were smart, engaged, and curious. Much like many of the other groups I speak to and with. Most recently, I spoke about the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission and…
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