Local and statewide candidates interested in making NC the freest, most prosperous state in the Union would do well to examine bold solutions like this compact.
n a new analysis, experts ‘graded the grid’ and found wind and solar to be the worst energy generation options.
Critics attack the final management plan for the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests, arguing it will lead to overharvesting. Forest managers point out the plan does the difficult work of balancing multiple competing demands. The recent release of the final Nantahala and Pisgah Forest Plan has (unsurprisingly) drawn criticisms from a group of environmental special...
“Would you get on an airplane that is 100% unreliable?” Of course not. That was a serious question a former Utilities Commission staffer asked me after I shared this confession Carolina Journal uncovered in a 2018 N.C. solar power application: “Solar is an intermittent energy source, and therefore the maximum dependable capacity is 0 MW.” ...
Every one of Cooper’s budgets has defunded Opportunity Scholarships for low-income students, claiming they “are wrong.
Editor’s Note: This column first appeared in The Hill on Sept. 5, and on the website of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy on Sept. 29. The Trump administration and congressional leaders are at loggerheads over another COVID-19 relief package that may effectively provide state and local governments with another bailout. Discussions suggest it would range from $200...
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Who should be required to get more training: An auto mechanic changing your faulty brakes, fixing your misaligned steering column, and replacing a leaky fuel pump — or a barber taking a little off the top? If you answered the barber, you might be a government regulator in Michigan. Jarrett Skorup,...
RALEIGH -- For years, state education leaders, school officials, and public school advocacy groups have urged the North Carolina legislature to extend the school day and year.
Public education officials continue to push ideas that have no track record of improving student performance.
Fears about government intrusion should not shut the door on a valuable tool for improving education.
RALEIGH — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that economic development incentives given by the State of Ohio to automobile manufacturer DaimlerChrysler violated the interstate Commerce Clause of the US Constitution. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Sixth District Court of Appeals determined that Ohio’s investment tax credit “is to encourage further investment in-state at the expense of development in other states, and the result is to hinder free trade among the states.” Robert Orr, a former state Supreme Court justice who leads the new North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law, called the decision “very important” and “ a step in the right direction.”
