Bruce Clarke couldn’t help his client, so she called a lawyer and ended up with a bill near $1,000. “Is that the end of the world? It might not be to many, but she’s on a business that operates on government grants, and she barely makes…
If North Carolina’s nebulous criminal code isn’t confusing enough, the “elephant” metaphors lawmakers use to describe them are even less enlightening. At a reform-oriented summit hosted Monday, Oct. 21, in Cary by the Cato Institute and the John Locke Foundation, several lawmakers excoriated the state’s criminal…
The nation’s largest employer of the blind hasn’t decided which employees will lose their jobs, but 47 people will go in the first round of cuts. After a federal court ruling downgraded the preferential status of nonprofit employers of the blind and disabled, IFB Solutions lost…
Starting Monday, Aug. 5, bus riders to Research Triangle Park will be able to get free or discounted rides from Uber or Lyft to reach the last stretch of their destination. One transportation expert says this is a sign that public transit is on the way out. …
Navy veteran Scott Smith went to bed on a Friday night. When he awoke the next morning he was blind. Scott, who was a welder, suffers from optic neuropathy, which cost him his vision. He was afraid he’d never work again. But…
U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, has introduced legislation making it easier for consumers to sue big tech companies such as Facebook or Twitter for showing overt political bias. To do so, Hawley wants to remove automatic protections tech companies have under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act…
If you think politicians and bureaucrats in Washington always know best, and that there is just one best way to solve public problems, then the current system shouldn’t worry you. If not, it should.
Our state does not have the top-performing economy in the country — does that mean North Carolina’s rightward turn on economic policy was a mistake?…
To the extent government is limited, we enjoy the freedom to make our own decisions, to form our own private agreements and associations according to our own personal values.
To the extent Democrats cede both right and center to Republicans when it comes to economics, they are making a long-term bet that the public wants vastly more government and vastly more taxes to pay for it.
