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PED’s report on liquor full of useful info, but don’t read too much into it
The Program Evaluation Division has a compiled and released a comprehensive report that looks at how North Carolina regulates and controls liquor sales and offers ways and legislative options toward changing and modernizing the process. The thoughtful 59-page report, “Changing how North Carolina Controls Liquor Sales has Operational, Regulatory, and Financial Ramifications,” plus appendices, provides...
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The morality of wealth: de Blasio and the WSJ are wrong
Among many in the Democratic Party, attacking the rich is back in style. Some popular Democrats contend that large concentrations of wealth are, at best, unseemly and, at worst, absolutely immoral. From newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to possible presidential candidates, including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio,...
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A real prize
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The algorithm will know it when it sees it
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Forums will reconnect North Carolinians
We don’t really live in rigidly separated “rural” places and “urban places,” and the largest share of North Carolinians live in places they and others would call suburban.
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Tapping into the N.C. school construction debate
One hopes statewide school bond supporters can consider alternatives that address the same goal.
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I’m also a Muppet
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Apocalypse now
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Growth still drives worker pay
Making workers' labor more productive, through capital investment of various kinds, remains a better way to improve their well-being than hiking regulations or redistributing income.
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Enough is enough: It’s time to wake up and reform the way North Carolina controls liquor
It’s time to wake up, North Carolina. Enough is truly enough. In truth, it’s well past time lawmakers take substantive steps toward rewriting or eliminating much of the arcane laws governing alcohol, painfully documented in N.C. General Statute 18b. It runs nearly 150 pages and almost 70,000 words. So, let’s open that cracked and weathered...
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