Bird Flu has been detected in a North Carolina dairy herd.
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Having trouble getting a hair appointment or other services? There are three bills sitting in the Senate Rules Committee that sponsors say would loosen bureaucratic red tape for some small service businesses. Bill sponsors are eager to see them move before lawmakers adjourn for the year. One bill would shorten the licensure process to teach...
Many of the problems with modern American politics stem from a media obsessed with creating a dramatic narrative and politicians dying to be on center stage. We don’t have to look any further than Raleigh’s recent case of the missing zebra cobra (N. nigricincta) to find an example. Residents of Wake County were served nearly...
New research finds that federal regulation leads to an increase in deaths, and North Carolina is one of the states most affected. Days before President-elect Joe Biden enters office, Mercatus Center economists James Broughel and Dustin Chambers released a study arguing that the connection between regulation and mortality rates may be causal. The Democratic Biden...
Regulations continue to prevent advanced nurse practitioners from volunteering to care for sick or injured people in North Carolina. To treat patients, nurse practitioners must fall under the supervision of a physician. In fact, nurse practitioners often meet with their supervisor only twice a year, yet still pay thousands of dollars to comply. The nurse...
Raleigh residents soon won’t see Bird or Lime e-scooters zipping around town. Electric scooter companies, Bird and Lime, announced March 28 they were leaving Raleigh, citing city regulations as the driving force. In statements to WRAL news, the e-scooter companies said they will be leaving North Carolina’s capital. “Our time in Raleigh must come to...
Occupational licensing may have cost North Carolina more than 42,000 jobs and millions in economic losses, a new study from the Institute for Justice says. The study from the nonprofit, libertarian public interest law firm looked at the economic cost of occupational licensing across the country. According to the study, a conservative measure of lost...
What’s the theme for limited government, personal responsibility, opportunity and freedom across North Carolina for the 2018 election cycle? Keep on keepin’ on. Reforms since 2011 have transformed our state into an economic powerhouse, creating jobs and opportunities like never before. Tax cuts begun in 2011 have put $5 billion back into the economy; $10 billion by 2022. All North Carolinians...
For half a century, making any reform to a state’s occupational licensing system has been nigh on impossible. How hard? In 2015, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics could find “only eight instances of the de-licensing of occupations over the past 40 years.” In recent months, however, the ice jam over occupational licensing has begun...
In this age of cronyism and meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss partisan turnstile D.C. politics, maybe it really does take an “outsider” executive to give up power voluntarily. To D.C. insiders and their likeminded media, the idea is unthinkable. They lack even the vocabulary to denounce it properly. Two days after Donald Trump won the election, Politico published an...
