The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority certainly had good intentions when it voted to change the airport’s name late last year. It had some good reasons, as well. But it wasn’t such a good idea. The airport, which straddles the city limits of Greensboro…
Every few days, I see another story. They’re always the same. They start with some headline about how a company has chosen North Carolina over another state. Occasionally it’s another country. Sometimes it’s a city. They read like this: [Insert Company Name Here] chooses [North Carolina/City Name] over [other state/country] for latest expansion. It’s not…
Here’s a new math fact for a new school year: The U.S. will launch the year at the back of the global classroom. Other countries have surged ahead, populating a global STEM pipeline that teems with talent. Yet despite hundreds of billions of dollars in annual education spending and years…
Americans are upset. Some are just mildly unhappy, others seem miserable, many are plain mad. A NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll reports that more than half have believed the country is “on the wrong track” in every month since February 2005. A Pew survey reveals most of us have been…
RALEIGH — The General Assembly’s top economist on Tuesday told legislative budget writers that the state had a “steady as we go” economy that is now faring better than most other states. “We now have reached a point where we are now surpassing…
Economic development is a game, and it’s played by its own special set of rules. At its core, it involves taking public money and spending it on private companies, which is also presented as a gain for the public as a whole. That’s especially true for stadiums and other facilities…
Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation vice president for outreach, discusses costs associated with renewable energy mandates. Gray offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 663).
Lee Roberts, outgoing director of the N.C. Office of State Budget and Management, assesses North Carolina’s fiscal picture for the 2016 calendar year. Roberts offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 662).
Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation vice president for outreach, answers host Tom Campbell’s question about the impact of recent N.C. tax reforms. This exchange took place during the Jan. 24, 2016, episode of N.C. Spin.
The John Locke Foundation’s Becki Gray and Jon Sanders and the N.C. Justice Center’s Bill Rowe tout the potential benefits of occupational licensing reform in North Carolina. Gray, Sanders, and Rowe delivered these comments Jan. 21, 2016, to an occupational licensing boards subcommittee of the Joint Legislative Administrative Procedure Oversight…
