“Explanations exist, they have existed for all time,” the social critic H.L. Mencken once wrote. “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.”
Recent dissents from Justice Paul Newby could offer interesting clues to voters as they head to the polls in November.
In its understandable rush to impose sick-leave requirements, expand unemployment-insurance benefits, and cast a lifeline to struggling businesses, the federal government has made the labor market far more rigid than usual.
Liquor sales at Wake County stores, within the first 10 days of the shutdown last month, shot up some 80%, says Ike Wheeler. Sales were much like those during the Christmas holidays, he says. No surprise there, as many raced to buy spirits afraid that, mirroring Pennsylvania, North Carolina would close the state-run stores. That...
Every level of government has shifted its focus to respond to the spreading coronavirus. Recently, the country watched as both chambers of Congress voted to pass the massive relief package known as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The CARES Act was the third coronavirus response bill passed by Congress. The Coronavirus...
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