RALEIGH — Whichever political party controls the N.C. General Assembly, lobbyists for special interests often pressure lawmakers to raise taxes. That will be true in 2011, as Republicans take control of the state Legislative Building. John Locke Foundation President John Hood discussed the topic with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
North Carolina’s statutory cap of 100 charter schools is going to disappear sooner or later.
The nation’s far-sighted governors are exercising caution about a federal “bailout” of their states, while certain myopic chief executives are making jokes.
Regarding the budget-devouring monster known as Medicaid, North Carolina policymakers don’t seem willing to lead, follow, or even get out of the way. Fiscal discipline requires action.
Dr. Dennis Rondinelli believes that soaring costs and dubious benefits of corporate welfare, such as the Dell deal, will haunt North Carolina for years.
A governor spoke in Raleigh Tuesday about the need to make fundamental changes in Medicaid to avoid ongoing fiscal problems. Demonstrators attacked him as heartless. Guess who?
RALEIGH — A special legislative session convenes today to vote on incentives to entice Dell Computer to build a plant in the Triad. But a similar incentives deal struck five years ago in Tennessee was sold to the public by exaggerating the benefits and underestimating the costs of incentives for a Dell plant. The difference between the initial, pro-incentives study and a later review was that the first one didn’t include indirect costs such as educating the children of Dell employees who are newcomers and providing those families with city services.” Because of tax rebates, these costs were covered not by Dell but by other companies and taxpayers in the area.
Political power often relies on credibility, which is why both Richard Morgan and a top Democratic political aide lost a little power last week.
A new poll for the Raleigh N&O puts Gov. Easley's approval rating below 50 percent -- again. And the result was spun as good news for Easley -- again.
