North Carolina deserves a functional General Assembly
Finger-pointing, childish blame-shifting, and refusing to accomplish the fundamental task of passing a budget are what have characterized this year’s legislative session. Voters deserve better.
There's a much easier and cheaper way to make housing affordable: stop trying to control the process and let the market create the housing it needs.
Gov. Stein should emulate the success in Washington, DC, where President Trump's deployment of the National Guard slashed violent crime by nearly half in the weeks following the surge — including 12 straight days without a homicide.
When Eugene “Gene” Boyce passed away on Oct. 28, NC lost not only one of its finest legal minds but also a man who carried a piece of American history with him.
Because I’m a fiscal conservative, you might think I reflexively oppose government borrowing. You’d be mistaken. I believe that public finance and toxicology share a common rule: the dose makes the poison. That phrase is traditionally attributed to Paracelsus, a physician and philosopher of the German Renaissance, but the underlying notion, that something can be...
Allowing more small homes, speeding up approvals, and prioritizing thoughtful, pro-community housing would make paychecks go further and help people stay in the communities they love.
It’s hard to justify a national emergency based on a 50-year fact of American economic life.
The passing of G. Eugene Boyce on Oct. 28, 2025, marks the end of an era for North Carolina’s legal community. I had the honor of working briefly alongside Gene on the Goldston Highway Trust Fund litigation. That experience taught me more about constitutional law and legal ethics than years of practice could otherwise provide....