Regardless of the election results, on Wednesday all of us at the John Locke Foundation will come to work with the same goal we’ve had since the doors opened in 1990: Restraining government to its core, constitutional functions and enacting policies that expand freedom and opportunity for North Carolinians. Here…
Becki Gray on legislative session highlights; House members on coal ash clean-up plan; lawmakers on finding owners of unclaimed savings bonds; Robert Shibley on free-speech rights on N.C. college campuses; Terry Stoops on opportunity scholarships…
Now is not the time for lawmakers and policymakers to backtrack from positive reforms.
North Carolina legislators have made significant progress in addressing taxes, regulation, education, and more.
State lawmakers make history in the depth and breadth of reform measures adopted in 2013.
RALEIGH — From taxes and spending to regulation, education, and transportation, the 2013 session of the North Carolina General Assembly proved historic in producing positive reforms for state government. That’s the assessment from top John Locke Foundation staffers reviewing this year’s legislative scorecard.
John Hood on NY Times criticism of N.C. reforms; legislators debate regulatory reform; Gov. Pat McCrory on achievements of first six months; Jane Pinsky on redistricting reform; Jane Shaw on demise of college summer reading programs…
Terry Stoops on legislative K-12 reform; legislators debate vouchers; John Taylor on first principles of economic freedom; Ember Reichgott Junge on nation's first charter school; CJ's Rick Henderson on effort to pare back renewable energy mandate…
Jane Shaw on reforming UNC System; Andy Ellen, Gary Salamido & Connie Wilson on unemployment insurance fraud; Fergus Hodgson on libertarian tax policy; Terry Stoops on N.C. House education reform; Troy Kickler on N.C.'s role in Civil War…
Those who got the implications of welfare reform very wrong in the 1990s haven't yet offered a coherent explanation -- and now there's another inconvenient fact to explain.
