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Livable Streets, Dangerous Roads: Traffic Calming Endangers the Lives of Those in Need of Emergency Services
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Fish Tales About Mercury: Why regulation of mercury is all cost and no benefit
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The ABCs of Public Disgrace: North Carolina’s school-accountability system has misled parents and taxpayers
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
He Didn’t Build That: How Cooper’s Corporate Welfare Could Cost Taxpayers Up to $586K/Job
My previous research brief discussed that last year Gov. Roy Cooper pledged over $1.3 billion in corporate welfare to just 58 corporations from state “economic development” incentives programs whose stated purposes are about “job creation.”…
Liberty
Mike Walden: Clear Possibility We Will Have a Recession In Late 2022
Hang onto your seats, everyone. Tired of your grocery bill going up and up each week? Inflation is the problem we face today, but a recession could be the problem…
Liberty
Fell Off a Ladder and Came Down with Covid
Since at least October 2020, we have been trying to find out how many of North Carolina’s Covid-19 hospitalizations were for people whose Covid infection was so bad that it put…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
How to Reply to the “Health Care and Housing Are Human Rights” Argument
Nothing that requires the labor of others is a right. Rights don't need to be rationed.
Liberty
Meet The Food Lady of Athens, Texas
Buying food for the week ahead has become a discouraging adventure. There’s no better indication that Joe Biden’s economy doesn’t work for America than my weekly trip to the grocery…
Elections & Public Integrity
Destin Hall’s “Concept Maps:” Gamechanger or Nothingburger?
[P]laintiffs could have gotten testimony from someone who had direct knowledge of Hall's concept maps but choose not to get it. Their lack of curiosity about what Reel knows about…
Education
It’s Time for a Parent’s Bill of Rights
As displayed across the country parents are feeling unheard, that their choices within schools are infringed upon and most importantly that students’ basic educational needs are not met. Do a quick…
Liberty
Justice Barrett To Vax Mandate Attorneys: When Does The Emergency End?
Today’s oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court about the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate produced a fascinating exchange, courtesy of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Biden’s mandate seeks to use an…
Liberty
Still Popular
From Rasmussen: A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports finds that 52% of Likely U.S. voters have a favorable impression of Trump, including 33% who have a…
Liberty
The Politics of Migration
My Locke colleague Brian Balfour has noted that Americans voted with their feet in 2021, moving away from higher-tax states to lower-tax states like North Carolina. Check out the chart…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Inflation: Then and Now
In conversations about record inflation, most people harken back to the Jimmy Carter era where annual price inflation growth surpassed 10%. Inflation resulted in a boon to the government as…
Liberty
If You Care About Attacking Poverty, Then Care About Attacking Crime
The first time crime really hit home for me was when a thug pointed a gun at a family member’s head while she was making an after-hours bank transaction. Thankfully,…