North Carolina must reform its lobbying laws to conform with those of neighboring states and to keep evil at bay
When the government regulates a private behavior, your freedom can be diminished even if you don’t intend ever to engage in it.
When company reps or consultants say they will not come to your community unless a government bribes them, the proper response is skepticism. It is likely that the claim will prove to be less than accurate.
This past Monday, John Walton - philanthropist, businessman, education reformer, and Vietnam War veteran - died in a plane crash, ending what was surely a remarkable and unforgettable life.
People worrying about global warming often base their conclusions on data that, in the context of time, are only a grain of sand on the beach. Anyone with a true understanding of climate history knows that the relatively small changes experienced over the last 100 years could easily be "natural."
The NC House and Senate are working on a stopgap budget measure for 2005-06. They differ on which taxes to raise, and by how much. Whatever the outcome is, it'll be bad.
A new report from AARP shows that North Carolina is no leader when it comes to recovering Medicaid expenses from long-term care recipients who aren't poor. We must do better.
Naive liberals on the Supreme Court, in their Kelo ruling, strip private citizens of a basic right in the name of economic idiocy.
Whether it is subisides for public television, dissent at UNC, or other issues, too many political actors respond by mouthing platitudes that bear little relevance to the real debate.
If you think the N.C. House and Senate conferees have squeezed the budget, try these boondoggles on for size.
On the same day that the NC Institute for Constitutional Law filed suit against the Dell incentives, the US Supreme Court bungled another case involving abuse of government power.
