John Locke Updates: 2014

View in your browser. Welcome Statewide test scores and graduation rates for the 2013-14 school year were released yesterday.  Did we receive good news, bad news,…

The Charlotte Observer sought John Locke Foundation President John Hood‘s expert analysis of local governments’ pursuit of sales tax increases in addition to the traditional reliance on property…

As left-of-center activists and advocates continue to push North Carolina’s elected officials to expand the troubled Medicaid program, the John Locke Foundation argues for an alternative course. Health and Human…

View in your browser. Labor unions and "moral" activists have once again somehow gotten a few of the poorest and least educated workers in the…

View in your browser. If medical providers have plans to build or expand an existing health care facility, offer new services, update or purchase major…

View in your browser. Making news across the state in recent days is a study out of UNC Chapel Hill that newspaper headlines are claiming shows…

View in your browser.   For many of us, Labor Day signifies the last day of summer.  For local governments, it is the day…

View in your browser. In 2013 North Carolina instituted sweeping tax reform and began the process of making its tax system more efficient and more consistent with…

An article appearing in both the Wilmington Star-News and New Bern Sun Journal cited information from the N.C. History Project website about the Venus flytrap. John…

The N.C. Spin website and N.C. Senate Republicans’ daily press email both highlighted Carolina Journal Associate Editor Barry Smith‘s coverage of a court ruling striking down North Carolin’s…