Conventional wisdom holds that the political party in the White House tends to lose seats in mid-term elections. Yet, 1994 turned into a proverbial bloodbath for Democrats. Tom Foley became the first U.S. House Speaker to lose his bid for re-election since the American Civil War. His defeat was part…
Public school districts in North Carolina have received about $5.3 billion in COVID-related relief from the federal government. But, on average, school leaders have spent just 13% of that money. That’s according to an analysis of data from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction compiled by…
A leading left-wing advocacy group offers groundless criticism of the N.C. Senate's tax reform plan.
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…
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses the N.C. House’s progress in releasing a budget plan. King offered these comments during the July 23, 2021, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”…
Brian Balfour, senior vice president of research at the John Locke Foundation, discusses a recent attack on proposed N.C. tax cuts. Learn more here: “How not to argue against tax cuts.”…
North Carolina should mark the fifth anniversary of a law that prevents state budget brinkmanship.
Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation senior vice president, notes that July 14, 2021, marks the fifth anniversary of an important N.C. budget law. It ensures that government operations continue if no new budget plan has been approved by July 1.
At $6 trillion, President Joe Biden’s first budget calls for an unprecedented level of federal spending. Republican members of Congress who criticize the president’s plan are understandably reminded by Democrats that the GOP did not do much to resist—and even contributed to—excessive government spending during President Donald Trump’s time in…
The governor objects to income tax breaks benefiting people earning more than $200,000. But the plan he criticizes would offer tax breaks for everyone.
