When you craft public policy through an orderly process, you increase both the quality of legislation and the credibility of legislators.
Hyperbole is alive and well in Raleigh. The superlatives, at one point this week, were flying. Tuesday, lawmakers unanimously approved a $200.9 million disaster relief package for North Carolinians whose lives were uprooted this fall by Hurricane Matthew and western wildfires. The package, as we reported, includes $20 million to the Housing Trust Fund for...
Legislators consider new rules to guide use of N.C. state government's emergency savings reserve.
State Republicans believe their economic policies have helped North Carolina outperform most other states. They believe the voters largely agree. So expect more of the same.
The following editorial appeared in the December 2016 print edition of Carolina Journal: When it comes to plans to pack the N.C. Supreme Court with new members, the John Locke Foundation instigated nothing. Yet frenzied left-of-center partisans and even some mainstream media outlets fingered JLF as the source of an idea that circulated within the...
Economic development is a game, and it’s played by its own special set of rules. At its core, it involves taking public money and spending it on private companies, which is also presented as a gain for the public as a whole. That’s especially true for stadiums and other facilities built for sports teams, where...
