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No Bureaucrat Left Behind: N.C. public schools add staff at a much faster rate than enrollment
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Salisbury’s Fiber-Optic Cable System: Another corporate welfare project paid for by average taxpayers
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Smoking Ban Bill: Make no mistake; it’s an attack on property rights
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Energy
How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 4
The Utilities Commission wants Duke to model taking on onshore wind generation and study offshore wind generation. Onshore wind generation is very expensive, needs costly transmission upgrades, and also requires…
Liberty
Massive Layoffs at Google, Amazon, Microsoft Raise Recession Alarm Bells
Recession concerns are growing after several of the biggest companies in the world, including Google, Amazon and Microsoft, all begin massive layoffs. It raises serious questions about the future of…
Education
On This Day in NC | January 27, 1788
January 27, 1778 | William Tryon died on this day. He had been a royal governor for North Carolina and New York. He is most known for ruling during the Regulator Rebellion that lasted…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Report Shows NC Lags Other States in Tax Treatment of Remote Workers
NC ranks poorly in its tax treatment of remote workers.
Liberty
Celebrating School Choice Week in North Carolina
It’s North Carolina’s National School Choice Week, and the John Locke foundation and other partners are celebrating this important issue. The latest Civitas Poll also shows a growing support for…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Restoring the Separation of Powers in North Carolina
The North Carolina State Constitution unequivocally declares, “The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers shall be forever separate and distinct from each other.” Despite that declaration, North Carolinians are increasingly…
Liberty
For Recent Petitions Asking the N.C. Supreme Court to Rehear Redisctricting Cases, Timing Is Everything
As reported at The Carolina Journal, North Carolina’s legislative leaders filed petitions last week asking the N.C. Supreme Court to rehear two cases in which the court’s outgoing Democratic majority ruled against Republican legislators…
Research Brief
Elections & Public Integrity
North Carolina Removes Hundreds of Thousands of Registrations from Voter Rolls
County boards of elections in North Carolina regularly remove voter registrations of people whom they confirm have died or moved out of the county. In addition, county boards conduct "no…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Share of Union Workers at All-Time Low
Headlines detailing pro-union pushes at Amazon, Starbucks, and other big companies, coupled with President Biden’s vow to be the “most pro-union President leading the most pro-union administration in American history,” may lead us to…
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Freedom Focus
How Government Intervention Enables Racism, Discrimination
So-called “antiracists” typically advocate greater government intervention to combat racism. But such interventions can lower the cost paid by those discriminating. Government itself faces the lowest cost for discrimination, so…
Liberty
Will North Carolina Become Like Pakistan?
Green energy is proposed as the way of the future, but it may instead lead North Carolina to becoming more like Pakistan. What happens when you have the best and…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Job Data Diverges Nationally and in North Carolina
After increasing for four consecutive months, North Carolina’s unemployment rate plateaued in December at 3.9%, according to the latest release from the North Carolina Department of Commerce. North Carolina’s unemployment rate moved above the…