Legislature Gets A- on Growth
The General Assembly deserves high marks for fashioning a new, empirically based strategy for fostering economic growth in North Carolina.
The goofy game …
If Tax Rates Don’t Matter…
To deny that taxes affect economic decisions is akin to denying that prices affect economic decisions. It is, in short, crackpot economics.
Princeton Scholar Spells Out Consequences of Racial Preferences
Racial preference policies (in education and elsewhere), far from helping to bring the nation together, keep the old sores of discrimination from healing.
Mistaken identity
Renewable Energy In the Headlines
The news doesn’t look good for the special interests and Big Energy crowd.
CJ Editorial: So Long, Rural Center
A scathing state audit and embarrassing media reports led to the sudden demise of a 26-year-old shakedown operation.
The Optimist’s Lament
For the vast majority of human beings, being alive in 2013 makes them among the luckiest people in the history of the world.
The Obama record
Making It Tougher to Max Out the State Credit Card
An important new law on state debt emerges from the 2013 N.C. legislative session.