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Feng Shui Schools: Wake County’s Unenlightened School Building Program
Health Care
High-Risk Health Insurance Pools: A step towards an individual insurance market
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Sanford’s Triple Bogey: The City Government Has No Business Being in the Golf Business
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
Voting with their feet, Americans moved to low-tax states in 2021
Taxes aren't the only reason people move, "but there is no denying a very strong correlation between low-tax, low-cost states and population growth," the article concludes.
Liberty
3 Influencers To Watch In 2022
One of my resolutions for the new year is to spend less time being outraged by flame-throwers on social media and instead spend more time learning from the straight-talking pros.…
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Freedom Focus
Who Should Provide For You?
Charitable action is often mutually beneficial in that not only does the recipient benefit, but also the giver benefits from satisfying an altruistic desire to help those in need. Conversely,…
Liberty
A Thanksgiving for NC Taxpayers
North Carolina State Treasury Controller Linda Combs was fighting for 1.7 billion dollars of taxpayers’ money over the Thanksgiving holiday. A judge had ordered Combs and her staff to move…
Liberty
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending January 3
This past week about 98.8% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone. Also about 11 out of 12 (91.4%) adult North Carolinians are…
Liberty
Joe Biden’s Economy Doesn’t Work For America
Unnerved and stretched thin. That’s a good description of how my extended family is feeling heading into the new year. Nearly two years of COVID lockdowns, mandates, job disruptions, and…
Research Brief
Regulation
North Carolina’s Success with Sunset Provisions Should Allay HHS’s Worries
On December 28, 2021, Jon Sanders submitted public comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding HHS's proposed rule to rescind its recently finalized Securing Updated…
Elections & Public Integrity
Redistricting Lawsuit: Plaintiffs’ “Optimized” Congressional Map Is Optimized to Elect White Democrats
Earlier research discovered that the NCLCV congressional map provides an 8-6 advantage to Democrats, something their own expert witness found was statistically impossible. Now we have discovered that none of…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
What Changes Can North Carolina Taxpayers Expect in 2022?
2021 brought many tax changes to North Carolina with the passage of the First in Freedom Budget, and in the end, everyone will see a bit more in their wallets.…
Research Brief
Health Care
Challenging North Carolina’s Pernicious and Unconstitutional Certificate of Need Law
North Carolina’s Certificate of Need law harms patients, insurers, and taxpayers by making health care more expensive and less accessible. New Bern eye surgeon Jay Singleton has filed a lawsuit…
Liberty
Remembering Rick Stroup
Mike Munger and Terry Anderson say farewell to a great mind (hat tip to Don Boudreaux for linking to their piece). An excerpt: “Rick” Stroup was one of the founders…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
What Has Biden Said On Inflation?
On Twitter: From his personal Twitter account, President Joe Biden has mentioned inflation once: From the @POTUS government account, the first time President Biden mentioned inflation was in early November, long…