Opinion
NC Senate should reconsider obstructing Convention of States
What has changed since 2017 when the resolution first passed the Senate? The national debt was about $20 trillion then. It is now close to $35 trillion.
Opinion
In Defense of Political Mavericks
Political mavericks play a useful role even when they don’t ultimately persuade the majority to vote their way.
News
Watchdog Objects To HUD Loan For Boutique Cary Hotel
CARY — Cary Watch considers the Mayton Inn project an illegal use of taxpayer funding for an economic development project. She said the attorney general’s office says there is no trigger mechanism empowering it to enforce statutes requiring project developers of the Mayton Inn and similar projects to submit bid proposals and post performance bonds.
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Burr Pushes Alternative to Obamacare
RALEIGH — Richard Burr, in his second Senate term, has no expectation that his or any other legislative health care proposal could become law until Obama leaves office in 2017. Yet he believes that Obamacare will be so unpopular when the next presidential race rolls around that even the Democratic nominee will have to promise to get rid of the president's signature health care legislation.
Opinion
Burr Obamacare Replacement: Good Policy, Good Politics
The Obamacare replacement plan from Sens. Burr, Coburn, and Hatch would repeal the disastrous health care law and replace it with consumer-friendly reforms.
Opinion
Slivinski Has Good Advice for GOP
In Buck Wild, Stephen Slivinski, at the time the director of budget studies at the Cato Institute, explores the previous 25 years of Republican governance, from Ronald Reagan’s halting moves to rein in federal spending through the first decade of postwar congressional rule by the GOP, and how the Republican Revolutionaries elected in 1994 morphed into “tax collectors for the welfare state” (to cite Newt Gingrich’s description of Bob Dole).
News
Federal Food Safety Legislation Hits New Snag
RALEIGH — With 15 agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and even the Environmental Protection Agency now regulating food safety, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said a lack of regulations isn’t the problem. Instead, Coburn has cited “inconsistent oversight, ineffective coordination, and inefficient use of resources” for gaps in enforcement.
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UNC Health Plan Makes Students Pay for Abortion Coverage
RALEIGH — A new policy that requires students enrolled in the University of North Carolina system to purchase health insurance also forces them to pay for abortion coverage if they use the university's plan, a development that’s upsetting pro-life groups.
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VIDEO: Senators Question N.C. Stimulus Projects
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., released a report Tuesday highlighting what they call the 100 worst stimulus projects in the nation. Eight projects in North Carolina made the list.
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Friday Interview: Phillips on AFP
RALEIGH — Today, Carolina Journal Radio’s Mitch Kokai discusses limiting government and promoting free markets with Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity. (Go to http://www.carolinajournal.com/cjradio/ to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)
News
Group Calls Sen. Burr ‘Taxpayer Hero’
RALEIGH — The Club for Growth released its 2007 Senate RePORK Card on Monday, which scored all U.S. senators’ votes on 15 anti-pork amendments in 2007, and determined that N.C. Sen. Richard Burr met the club’s earmark-reducing standards perfectly.
Opinion
Taxing Health Care Choice
Advocates for socialized health care avoid the facts when they target a proposed tax credit.
