Food insecurity in North Carolina requires innovative thinking and digging into the challenges facing growers and consumers.
On Tuesday afternoon, the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual meeting and awards ceremony, highlighting some of the most innovative and bold leaders in the state.
Like it or not, the United States and China are locked in high-stakes global competition over trade, technology, and national security. Ironically, at this crucial time, China appears to have found an unwitting ally in the US Supreme Court. The challenge couldn’t be more serious. But if Congress can move with bipartisan resolve, a legislative...
Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic include the importance of keeping money in savings to cushion an economic shutdown. Accurate and transparent data, we’ve learned, is critical. Restrictions to freedom must be temporary. Emergency calls for innovation, whether that’s receiving health care through telemedicine, learning and working online, or expanding opportunities by lifting long–held restrictions. By making strong fiscal principles work within a tight budget, North Carolinians have...
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 737: When people lobby government to create a new occupational license for their profession, they usually claim to be looking out for their customers’ best interests. In most cases, they actually hope to limit entry into their profession. That change protects existing businesses from competition. That’s the contention of...
It began with an anonymous complaint. It’s now a full-scale debate — about property rights, the free market, and, in fact, freedom of choice. Short-term rentals — Airbnbs, for example — have been banned in Raleigh for years, though enforcement of that ban has been lax as the city debates ways to regulate the industry....
RALEIGH — Over the past two decades, the term “smart growth” has become part of the national lexicon. Used frequently by policymakers and activists, the term describes a planning vision for transportation and development that purports to preserve the American dream of home ownership, mobility, and freedom. On Jan. 10, the Center for Local Innovation will host “Innovate 2004: Preserving the American Dream in North Carolina,” a discussion of what’s in store for the state if smart-growth policies continue to be implemented. Transportation and growth experts from around the nation will speak at the event in RTP.
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