North Carolina hit a major milestone when N.C. Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler announced that our state’s agriculture industry hit over $100 billion in economic activity for the first time, $103.2 billion, to be exact. While this is worth celebrating, the conversation should recognize that every dollar represents an impact on an everyday North Carolinian....
Had left-leaning justices gone along with conservative stalwart Clarence Thomas, they might have secured a better outcome for upcoming election disputes.
The terror that administrators and quite a few faculty at University of North Carolina’s flagship campus at Chapel Hill display over a wholesome curricular reform reveals staggering irrationality. The documents of the American Founding hardly deserve such apoplexy. If it becomes law, House Bill 96, the Reclaiming College Education on America’s Constitutional Heritage (REACH) Act,...
In a recent column, I argued that cities would draw more investment and job creation to their downtowns if people felt safer in them. Because the only North Carolina cities included in the national study I cited were Charlotte and Raleigh, some readers concluded that I thought the problem was limited to those two jurisdictions....
As the Government Affairs intern at the John Locke Foundation, I spend a goodly amount of time down at the state legislature attending committee meetings and tracking bills through the legislative process. Because of that, I have had a front row seat to what can only be called the chaos of the opposition to H.B....
During my formative years, the United States and the West in general was said to be locked in a “clash of civilizations” with the Islamic world, or at least radicals within it. Groups like Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Al Shabaab, Boko Haram, and later ISIS dominated the news. There was always a bombing, beheading, stoning,...
North Carolina has a housing and sawmill problem. The number of local sawmills in North Carolina has been declining, while the population of North Carolina, and the subsequent demand for housing, continues to rise exponentially. North Carolina’s Department of Housing has found that the state will be short a little under a million houses by...
