John Locke Updates: 2005

Paul Chesser, in the American Spectator writes that journalists should seek the truth by asking difficult questions.  Highlighting the way some reporters play softball on hard…

An N.C. House Bill (H.B. 1183) allowing some illegal immigrants access to in-state tuition rates, which made national headlines when it was proposed in April of this…

Carolina Journal‘s, Don Carrington, after securing an invitation to former U.S. Congressman Frank W. Ballance Jr.’s final farewell before serving a four-year federal prison term for mail fraud…

As the year draws to a close, Joe Coletti, in an Op-Ed for the Garner Times, provides the best recap of the changing political times, from 1950 to…

As JLF has said in the past, there are a few things the state can do to ease its health care burdens; namely, nix socialistic Certificate of Need Laws…

While DeBow and Winter pushed for alternative health care coverage, JLF’s fiscal policy analyst Joe Coletti exposed the state’s tax bias in his Spotlight, “End All Tax Biases: Report…

The recently released Business Climate Survey by JLF’s Center for Local Innovation found that North Carolina’s business leaders believe that the state’s high tax rate is the number one…

In response to the Public School Forum’s annual Local School Finance Study (must be ordered, online), JLF issued a press release challenging the study’s findings.   A key…

Other issues that continue to churn around the cost of running government schools are construction costs and school district size. Stoops took issue with the need for more bonds for…

The recent transit strike in New York has given new credence to George Leef’s recent book on the Right to Work Movement, Free Choice for Workers.  With the…