Odd-year primaries yield normal outcomes

One conclusion to be drawn from the congressional primaries we’ve seen so far this year is that significant expenditure is a necessary but insufficient condition for electoral success.

Certificate of Need: Government picking winners and losers

Texas did it in 1985. California did it in 1987. Pennsylvania did it in 1996. New Hampshire did it in 2016. Florida did it in 2019. I’m talking about states that repealed their Certificate of Need laws. CON laws were implemented by almost every state as a condition to receiving federal funding when Congress passed...

Throw him off the scent

Bad deal

State ranks high in college funding

Having previously ranked third, North Carolina now ranks sixth in higher-education appropriations per student — and in only seven other states is tuition lower as a share of revenues.

General Assembly prepares for long, hot summer as budget battle looms

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the folks on Jones Street. After a week of subcommittee meetings, full appropriation consideration, input from the finance side, two rare Friday sessions, and two full days of debate, on Friday, May 3, the House passed its $23.9 billion General Fund budget proposal. On May 1, as...