Opinion
Constitutional originalism only appears partisan to the untrained eye
Put simply, constitutional originalists believe that controversial policy choices are best left to us — the people.
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Measure with three constitutional amendments heads to House
Senate Republicans rebuffed a pair of last-ditch Democratic amendments on Tuesday, and approved by a 31-18 vote House Bill 3, containing three amendments to the state constitution including a single amendment combining two measures — one permanently lowering the cap on the state personal income tax rate from 10 percent to 5.5 percent and the other creating an...
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Friday Interview: The Overcriminalization of Federal Law
RALEIGH — We’ve all heard the saying “There ought to be a law.” The person using the expression usually advocates a new law to ban some objectionable activity. But a proliferation of new laws can create its own problems. John Baker, professor emeritus of law at Louisiana State University, explained the problem of overcriminalization of federal law during a conversation with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Opinion
Treasure Islands Revealing But Naïve
Treasure Islands is an investigation of the many ways that criminals and multinationals contrive to evade taxes by setting up “special purpose vehicles” and other kinds of shell entities in lenient tax jurisdictions... The book exemplifies views of bien pensants Europeans. Taxes are good and government is always beneficent.
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Wind Power Does Not Help Economy or Environment, Experts Say
WILMINGTON — Electricity generated from the wind is inefficient, extremely expensive, and bad for the environment, argued scientists and economists at a Dec. 5 forum the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
Opinion
A Values-Driven Reformation
An organization should focus on adopting the right values, right from the start, to avoid scandal.
Opinion
A Values-Driven Reformation
Values are so important that an organization must get them right, right from the start.
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Friday Interview: Arrogance of Power
RALEIGH — Former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland recently recently delivered a Headliner lecture to the John Locke Foundation on the topic “The Arrogance of Power.” He also discussed the topic with Carolina Journal associate editor Mitch Kokai. (Go to http://carolinajournal.com/cjradio/ to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)
Opinion
Sticking It to State Employees
Gov. Mike Easley said that he would veto the state budget if it included an extra $22 million for state-employee raises — this in a $17.2 billion budget chock full of wasteful spending. The threat was preposterous.
Opinion
No. 821: Bootleggers, Baptists, and the Clean Smokestacks Bill
Bootleggers (aka Progress Energy, Duke Power) join hands with Baptists (environmentalists) to push Clean Smokestacks bill.
News
School of the Arts Audit Detailed
RALEIGH — High-level administrators at the North Carolina School of the Arts engaged in “willful, deliberate, and intentional” violations of state law in what State Auditor Ralph Campbell described as “similar to the debacle at Enron.” Campbell said the findings at the NCSA were as serious as any his office had uncovered previously. The NCSA investigative audit was sparked, Campbell said, by auditors’ observation of unusual payroll entries from a routine audit for the end of fiscal 2003. Those unusual entries included multiple promotions and pay raises along with exorbitant overtime payments with little to no documentation to justify them.
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Scandal Uncovered at School of Arts
RALEIGH — High-level administrators at the North Carolina School of the Arts engaged in “willful, deliberate, and intentional” violations of N.C. law in what State Auditor Ralph Campbell described Tuesday as “similar to the debacle at Enron.” Campbell said the findings at the NCSA were as serious as any his office had uncovered previously and recommended that the University of North Carolina review whether the NCSA ought to continue exercising budget flexibility and that the UNC system have all UNC institutions report on the activities, including revenues and expenditures, of all their foundations and related organizations.
