Two Sensible Tort Reforms
Our civil justice system should make injured parties whole while limiting the amount plaintiffs can recover for harms that cannot be measured objectively.
Gov. Perdue has a great opportunity to transform both the state and her own political fortunes. I sincerely hope she takes it.
Even if lawmakers raised average UNC tuition by as much as 30 percent this year, that would still leave taxpayers and donors bearing nearly three-quarters of the cost.
Liberals don’t deny the educational benefit of school choice and other conservative reforms. They fear it.
North Carolina lawmakers should adopt changes that help guarantee justice for plaintiffs and defendants.
Plenty of other countries, including next-door neighbor Canada, have homeownership rates similar to ours despite a lack of major government interventions.
Legislators have spent too many years enabling our dependence on government to tackle every problem.