The North Carolina Senate unanimously voted June 6 for a bill that increases the penalties and charges for organized retail theft. House Bill 1005 passed by a vote of 102-0 and would mean a maximum 41 month prison term for those who conspire to steal $50,000 of merchandise or more within a 90 day period. If they steal more than $100,000 worth of goods in a 90 day period, they could face up to 182 months in prison; more than 15 years.
Several Republican lawmakers are challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Roy Cooper’s latest executive order and how it treats religious services. Sens. Kathy Harrington, R-Gaston, and Carl Ford, R-Rowan, sent a news release Tuesday, May 12, saying Cooper’s reopening plan includes contradictions on what religious activities are allowed. The news release responds to guidance Cooper’s Legislative...
Among many in the Democratic Party, attacking the rich is back in style. Some popular Democrats contend that large concentrations of wealth are, at best, unseemly and, at worst, absolutely immoral. From newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to possible presidential candidates, including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio,...
RALEIGH — Critics say the State Bar is attempting to stifle competition and reduce consumer choice. If our State Bar prevails, other states may follow suit and outlaw similar online self-help legal services.
Because most sales taxation puts the liability on sellers, not buyers, it will always be an indirect and inferior way to collect revenue.
RALEIGH — North Carolina paid Relational Investors about $6.6 million last year — or 1.26 percent of the $525.7 million that the Teachers' and State Employees’ Retirement System has invested with the company. That’s about five times the percentage that the average company got for managing stock investments from North Carolina’s pension fund.
RALEIGH — In an economy that depends more on consumerism than on production, the credit crisis means debt-burdened Americans are finding it harder to extract cash out of their homes or credit cards to finance their spending.
RALEIGH — Chatham County landowners would bear the costs of a "radical" land-use plan designed to benefit a small, politically connected elite. That's the conclusion of a new John Locke Foundation Regional Brief.
RALEIGH — Richard Vedder, economics professor at Ohio University and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, detailed his research about Wal-Mart during a recent speech to the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh. He also discussed the book, The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy, with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
GREENSBORO — “Green” schools appear to be a growing trend in public education nationally and in North Carolina. But school systems are quickly finding out that green schools cost quite a bit of green money.
