A federal judge has upheld recent changes in North Carolina’s voting laws. That includes a provision requiring photo identification for voters heading to the polls. Carolina Journal Managing Editor Rick Henderson assesses the significance of that ruling and how it might affect voters heading to the polls for congressional primaries and the November general election. In a nation of more than 300 million people, roughly 2 million people in just seven U.S. counties could determine the outcome of the 2016 presidential race. One of those communities is North Carolina’s Wake County. Columnist and HotAir.com blogger Ed Morrissey explores the electoral impact of Wake and the other six counties in the new book, Going Red. During a recent visit to Wake County, Morrissey shared themes from his book. Some state lawmakers are interested in boosting lottery revenue by allowing lottery staff to increase spending on advertising. State Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam, R-Wake, spoke out against that idea during a recent public meeting. You’ll hear Stam’s concerns about the impact of boosting lottery advertisements. Concerns about sweatshop labor revolve around the notion that laborers are exploited. But Matt Zwolinski, associate professor of philosophy at the University of San Diego, questions whether that exploitation is worse than neglecting those workers. That was a central theme of Zwolinski’s recent Hayek Lecture at Duke University. You’ll hear highlights. UnitedHealthcare has decided to drop its Obamacare health insurance policies in North Carolina. Katherine Restrepo, the John Locke Foundation’s health and human services policy analyst, assesses the significance of UnitedHealthcare’s decision.
Judge upholds voter ID and other N.C. election changes
Related
NCSBE report leaves questions about early voting site deadline change
A report given by Karen Brinson Bell, executive director for the North Carolina State Elections Board (NCSBE), along with Paul Cox, general counsel for NCSBE, to a Joint Legislative Elections Oversight Committee on Wednesday not only gave a wrap-up of the March primary and addressed other issues, but also raised questions by some on a contradictory measure taken by the board recently regarding early voting site changes.
State forecasts $1.4 billion budget surplus
The North Carolina General Assembly's Fiscal Research Division projects that while inflation and interest rates are still up, the state will have $400 million over in collections in the current fiscal year and $1 billion additional revenue coming into the state coffers in FY 2024-25.
Chatham County slams the brakes on VinFast as company changes plans
Construction is on hold at VinFast’s proposed $4 billion electric vehicle factory in Moncure, Chatham County, after the electric vehicle maker revised its plans for a scaled-down version of the facility.
NC Rate Bureau requests rate increase of up to 83% for mobile home insurance
After requesting an average rate hike of 42% in homeowners’ insurance rates in January, now comes word that the North Carolina Rate Bureau (NCRB) wants to raise mobile home fire policies (MH-F) an average of 83% and 50% for casualty policies (MH-C), both broken down over a three-year period. That’s according to a press release from the North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI).