John Locke Foundation Senior Vice President Becki Gray and Chairman John Hood answer host Tom Campbell’s questions about the closing days of the 2018 N.C. legislative session. These exchanges took place during the June 22, 2018, edition of “NC SPIN.”…
Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation senior vice president, discusses the 2018-19 General Fund budget for North Carolina. Gray offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
WINSTON-SALEM — Shawn and Cindy Weeks would like nothing more than to move. They’ve outgrown their house, on a quarter acre in Winston Salem, but can’t find a buyer. It comes down, really, to one law, which removed basic property rights and left homeowners in real estate purgatory. …
If the HOPE Act passes the House in its current form and gets signed into law, local police officers will be able to view the medical records of anyone who’s been prescribed a controlled substance. Seen as the “second chapter” of legislation aimed at cracking…
A proposed state constitutional amendment which would reduce the cap on the income tax rate to 5.5 percent moved closer to a statewide referendum Wednesday, despite the protests of Democratic lawmakers. The House Finance Committee approved Senate Bill 75 by a…
Food handlers are in luck, but their good fortune might not help farmers who were victimized by shady operators. In the current version of Senate Bill 711, NC Farm Bill of 2018, the Senate jettisoned a plan to hit produce transport…
The House completed the snub of Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto with a 73-44 override vote, as a single Democrat, outgoing Wake County Rep. Duane Hall, joined a unified Republican caucus. The House vote on the Republican-written $23.9 billion budget Tuesday,…
SurveyUSA, along with the Civitas Institute, a nonprofit conservative public policy organization, released findings from a flash poll showing a majority of voters support several constitutional amendments proposed this year. The poll was conducted between June 9-12 and surveyed 650…
District Court Judge Pell Cooper, Gov. Roy Cooper’s brother, manages three businesses — an apparent violation of state judicial rules designed to prevent conflicts of interest by judges. In 2009, state officials forced another district court judge who refused to leave two corporate boards to resign from the…
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 786: Politicians who rely on targeted tax incentives to help recruit businesses to North Carolina share a common trait with teenagers who stuff their faces with the first piece of chocolate cake they see. Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation senior fellow, explains that…
