Bureaucrats often go far beyond the power clearly delegated to them by elected lawmakers, who in turn lack the knowledge or expertise to detect and stop regulatory abuses.
After a brief presentation comparing North Carolina lawmakers’ pay to other states, on Monday a leader of a legislative oversight committee said he would form a “working group” to make recommendations for lawmakers’ future compensation. “A working group will look at the information that we’ve received from NCSL [the National Conference of State Legislatures], the...
Terry Stoops on NC's mixed results on NAEP tests; legislators react to data on NC legislator pay; Cornell Wilson on priorities for military & veterans services; Derek Yonai on need to teach free markets; Katherine Restrepo on Obamacare's unkept promises
