Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation director of health and fiscal policy studies, explains the different approaches Gov. Beverly Perdue and the General Assembly have taken to addressing North Carolina’s $2.4 billion budget shortfall. Coletti offered these comments during a March 7, 2011, speech to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of John Locke Foundation events, click here.
Charlotte Fraternal Order of Police criticizes statewide candidate for exploiting officers’ deaths
Braxton Winston, the Democratic candidate for North Carolina Labor Commissioner, was blasted Monday on Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police’s Facebook page for offering condolences for the four officers killed in an ambush on April 29 in East Charlotte.