The News & Observer writes unquestioningly about another renewable energy industry report that promotes ongoing government favoritism for renewable energy. “Clean energy is becoming an increasingly important part of North Carolina’s economy,” begins the N&O. But the report itself, “Renewables on the Rise 2018” from the Environment N.C. Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group, reads like...
If 117 government programs aren't enough to save the renewable energy industry in North Carolina, perhaps a 118th will do the trick.
The remedy is not to attempt to restrict the constitutional rights of special-interest groups. The remedy is to create other institutions to exercise free speech in rebuttal.
By using borrowed money to sustain levels of spending that current state taxes can’t sustain, Perdue and legislative leaders have set the stage for future tax hikes.
How can you determine whether a policy or piece of legislation is fair -- and should fairness be the criterion for deciding whether or not to adopt it?
Using the wrong standard when judging policy prescriptions can lead to unintended results.
By all means, policymakers in North Carolina should look northward to Massachusetts – not to find out what to enact in our state, but instead to find out what to avoid.
Raise your hand if you watch TV. Keep it up. OK, now raise your hand if you watch "Dawson's Creek" or "One Tree Hill," especially because they were filmed in North Carolina. And finally, raise your other hand (if you have any left) if you know that the producers of "One Tree Hill" are threatening to leave the state.
Senate leader Marc Basnight has a couple of ideas for boosting growth in North Carolina. One is unambiguously good while the other could be an irrelevant distraction.
• Charles Wheelan: Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science; Norton; 2002; 288 pp; $25.95
North Carolina’s unemployment rate has fallen from nearly 7 percent this summer to 6.1 percent in September. But virtually all the jobs created in the past few months have been in government, which does not bode well for the state’s long-term growth.
