Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation vice president for outreach, discusses a provision in the N.C. Senate budget that would boost state and local government transparency. Gray offered these comments during the July 22, 2015, edition of Time Warner Cable News’ “Capital Tonight.”
Politics should be less important
It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for nearly four decades, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be. Virtually every decision we make in our ostensibly free society is now subject to review, refinement, and reversal by some...