The state treasurer and the N.C. Healthcare Association can’t reach consensus over how to pay for health insurance for state employees. The governor and some legislative leaders are advocating Medicaid expansion to cover an additional 600,000 people, which would cost the state roughly $600 million the first two years. The…
The first step to saving money is to stop wasting it. A full-scale recodification of our criminal laws would empower North Carolina to accomplish exactly that. In December, the N.C. Supreme Court issued its opinion in State v. Rankin, a felony littering case that illustrates how North Carolina’s haphazard collection…
North Carolina has already been evading its balanced-budget rule for decades by promising pension and retiree-health benefits to public employees without setting aside enough money every year to cover the cost.
A judge's "findings of fact" fall short of the mark when it comes to N.C. income tax rates.
Letting politicians choose their voters rather than letting voters choose their political representatives is incompatible with basic principles of conservative governance.
There’s no extra money. The 2019-20 General Assembly session is well under way. Bills are being filed and committees are meeting, but the attention will soon fall on the biennial budget, which the governor introduced this week and included new and expanded spending, including a 9.1…
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 7, with comments from Wake County ABC General Manager Ike Wheeler. A week or so ago, a group of people who don’t like the idea of people drinking liquor got together to denounce efforts to privatize…
Restoring teacher-pay bumps for graduate degrees would be a triumph of special-interest pressure over sound policy, of image over substance, of hope over experience.
An index of economic freedom helps rebut arguments from self-proclaimed American socialists.
North Carolinians have the right to purchase, use, enjoy, and dispose of their property as they see fit — and this sphere of private ownership and control very much includes housing.
