Opinion
Court battle highlights CON’s negative impact on competition
The battle for a new MRI scanner in northeastern North Carolina exposes flaws in the state's certificate-of-need regime.
News
Latest court CON dispute focuses on MRI for northeastern NC
North Carolina’s second-highest court could decide whether state regulators made the wrong choice when they allowed one health care provider to maintain a monopoly on MRI machines serving northeastern North Carolina. A three-judge Court of Appeals panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that pits Virginia-based Chesapeake Diagnostic Imaging Centers against Sentara Advanced Imaging Solutions and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
News
Federal Appeals Court will not reconsider ruling against Duke Energy in Fayetteville case
The full 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has voted not to hold a rehearing in a case that produced a recent ruling against Duke Energy. The court announced Tuesday that it had voted 11-2 against considering the case en banc.
News
Appeals Court rules against Duke Energy in competition for Fayetteville’s business
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out a lower court order and ruled against Duke Energy in a dispute over providing electricity to customers in Fayetteville. A competitor argued that Duke had engaged in illegal anticompetitive practices to keep its current business with the North Carolina city.
Opinion
North Carolina has no need for this CON game
North Carolina's certificate of need sets up a competition for government favors instead of a competition for customers' business.
Video
Locke’s Terry Stoops discusses new charter school proposed for Garner
Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses a new charter school proposed for Garner. The Wake County Public School System opposes the school. Stoops offered these comments during a Sept. 14, 2022, report on WRAL.
Podcast
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the New State Budget
Joe Coletti summarizes the state budget; Randal O'Toole on addressing traffic gridlock; Jonathan Rhyne and Rick Glazier debate the state budget; Arnold Kling on competition and government services; Terry Stoops on end-of-course test quality.
Opinion
Free trade won, long ago
Candidates for U.S. Senate are debating the issue of free trade, even though the economic and philosophical case for it was made two centuries ago by Adam Smith and others.
