John Locke Foundation President John Hood discusses problems associated with North Carolina’s current system of state-controlled and locally administered alcohol sales. Hood offered these comments to Stuart Watson for a WCNC report that aired Jan. 7, 2010.
State forecasts $1.4 billion budget surplus
The North Carolina General Assembly's Fiscal Research Division projects that while inflation and interest rates are still up, the state will have $400 million over in collections in the current fiscal year and $1 billion additional revenue coming into the state coffers in FY 2024-25.