Ongoing repository site for research briefs by Jon Sanders.
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2024
- Sorry, climate grifters: Our burgers and cars aren’t to blame for busy hurricane seasons (Carolina Journal) — June 17, 2024
- Why North Carolina’s Regulatory Sandbox Needs Agriculture — June 13, 2024
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Congress Should Stop the EPA’s Dangerous Power Plant Rule — June 10, 2024
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Lawsuit: Feds Zeroed Out Expected Right Whale Deaths from Virginia Offshore Wind — May 6, 2024
- How “Only Pay for What You Get” Would Help North Carolina Electricity Customers — April 15, 2024
- Model Bill To Align Power Company Incentives with Customers’ Needs — April 9, 2024
- Rising Power Bills Stem from Bad Policy Choices and Incentives — April 3, 2024
- Save NC’s endangered farmland from overbuilding solar facilities (Carolina Journal) — March 15, 2024
- Three Dead Whales in Three Days — March 8, 2024
- New Paper Shows the Practical Impossibility of Central Planning (Freedom Focus) — February 28, 2024
- Bombshell: Electricity Customers and Taxpayers Are the Same People — February 21, 2024
- To Save North Carolina’s Endangered Farmland, Stop Overbuilding Solar Facilities — February 14, 2024
- Let’s Broaden North Carolina’s Regulatory Sandbox — February 12, 2024
- Report Finds Vast Disparity Between Computer Models’ Predictions of Climate Change and Actual Observations — February 1, 2024
- How a Budget Provision Keeps the Cooper Administration from Creating a Tax out of Thin Air — January 22, 2024
- Buc-ee’s shows the market at work (Carolina Journal) — January 18, 2024
- Buc-ee’s and EVs: How the Private and Public Sectors Differ in Meeting People’s Needs (Freedom Focus) — January 16, 2024
2023
- ‘Twas the Night Before Blackouts (Carolina Journal) — December 22, 2023
- More on the Costs of North Carolina’s Different Electricity Generating Sources — December 6, 2023
- Discussing the Costs of North Carolina’s Different Electricity Generating Sources — November 29, 2023
- Measuring the Reliability of North Carolina’s Different Electricity Generating Sources — November 16, 2023
- How NC legislators blocked Cooper’s plan to adopt California’s ‘green’ trucking rules (Carolina Journal) — October 31, 2023
- Governor’s Vetoes Would Harm Ratepayers and Reliable Electricity — October 4, 2023
- ‘Regulatory dark matter’ could sink swimming pool app (Carolina Journal) — September 28, 2023
- How the Budget Stops California from Setting North Carolina’s Transportation Policy — September 27, 2023
- Environmentalists Seek to Save the Whales from Offshore Wind — September 25, 2023
- What Is “China Carbon Time,” and What Does It Mean for States’ Efforts to Decarbonize Their Grids? — August 29, 2023
- We may soon pay double for less reliable electricity. Blame bad policy choices. (Carolina Journal) — August 17, 2023
- How MPV Southgate can help bridge gap from coal to zero-emissions nuclear (Carolina Journal) — August 7, 2023
- How Much Does Offshore Wind Power Threaten Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales? — July 24, 2023
- Acton’s Warning Is for Everyone and All Times (Freedom Focus) —June 28, 2023
- How MVP Permitting Approvals Can Help Bridge the Gap from Coal to Zero-Emissions Nuclear — June 15, 2023
- Offshore Wind Turbines Severely Interfere with Marine Vessel Radar and Endanger Mariners — May 18, 2023
- Offshore Wind Projects Off Brunswick County Beaches Also Imperil Military Training and Operations — May 16, 2023
- Kitty Hawk Offshore Wind Area Red-Flagged by Pentagon — May 12, 2023
- Spoiled Beach Views from Massive Offshore Wind Turbine Arrays Would Cripple Tourism — April 17, 2023
- Massive Offshore Wind Turbines with Flashing Lights Would Be Major Features on the Coastal Horizon, Part 2 — April 14, 2023
- Massive Offshore Wind Turbines with Flashing Lights Would Be Major Features on the Coastal Horizon — April 13, 2023
- DHHS Stops Reporting Covid Hospitalizations by Vaccination Status — April 4, 2023
- A Smart, Simple Fix for Some Unnecessary Overregulation — March 17, 2023
- Being vs. Seeming in Crafting Policy (Freedom Focus) — March 13, 2023
- Protecting North Carolinians from Compulsory Covid Vaccination and School Masking — March 8, 2023
- Fell off the roof and came down with COVID (Carolina Journal) — March 7, 2023
- North Carolina’s CO2 Emissions Were Already Cut Nearly in Half Before the Carbon Plan — February 22, 2023
- The ‘new study finds’ approach to overregulation (Carolina Journal) — February 14, 2023
- How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 5 — February 2, 2023
- How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 4 — January 30, 2023
- Freedom and whisky go together like tyranny and oppression (Carolina Journal) — 25, 2023
- How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 3 — January 24, 2023
- How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 2 — January 23, 2023
- How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 1 — January 17, 2023
- Power Generation During Blackouts Shows the Importance of Nuclear — January 6, 2023
2022
- Mere Minutes: What ‘China Carbon Time’ Means for North Carolinians — December 1, 2022
- When Is ‘China Carbon Time’ for Your State? — November 30, 2022
- Sorry, California, Governor Cooper Has No Authority to Order a “Clean Trucks” Rule — November 14, 2022
- There’s Nothing “Market-Driven” About Cooper’s Trucking Order — October 28, 2022
- Can California Hog the Regulation of North Carolina Pig Farms? — October 20, 2022
- Hurricane Winds Can Destroy Offshore Wind Turbines — September 29, 2022
- A Decarbonization Portfolio Must Be Low-Cost and Reliable — September 27, 2022
- With climate emissions, Americans are not the problem (Carolina Journal) — September 26, 2022
- A Back-to-School Look at the NC Threat-Free Index — September 13, 2022
- Duke’s Carbon Plan scenarios all flunk the reliability test — August 30, 2022
- How Much More Would You Spend on Electricity for Tens of Thousands of Jobs Lost? — August 19, 2022
- Is North Carolina So Desperate for Jobs that It Makes Even Offshore Wind Seem Worth a Gamble? — August 18, 2022
- Bug off and let people enjoy their food (Carolina Journal) — August 12, 2022
- Offshore Wind Facilities Would Wreck N.C.’s Coastal Fishing Industry and Marine Ecosystems — August 10, 2022
- Offshore Wind Development Threatens Marine Wildlife, Including Endangered Species — August 8, 2022
- Bad State Energy Policies Can’t Save the World, But They Can Harm North Carolinians, Part 2 — July 7, 2022
- Bad State Energy Policies Can’t Save the World, But They Can Harm North Carolinians — June 30, 2022
- Energy Poverty in North Carolina Would Be Even Worse Under Cooper’s Offshore Wind Goals — June 16, 2022
- Detailing Cooper and DEQ’s Early Reluctance to Stop PFAS Pollution in the Cape Fear River — June 8, 2022
- Electricity Prices Would Skyrocket Under Cooper’s Offshore Wind Goals — June 3, 2022
- New Study: Cooper’s Offshore Wind Order Could Cost up to 67K Jobs — May 23, 2022
- DHHS Stops Reporting Covid Cases by Vaccination Status — May 18, 2022
- This tweet contains speech. Click here to learn more. (Carolina Journal) — May 11, 2022
- A subtly optimistic fable: George Leef’s ‘The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale’ (Carolina Journal) — April 20, 2022
- Our Corporate Welfare Insanity Is Fast Heading to a Bad Place — April 4, 2022
- People Need Their Local Officials to Ask Hard Questions About “Sure-Winner” Projects — March 23, 2022
- Mr. Employer, tear down these masks (Carolina Journal) — March 17, 2022
- Fully Vaccinated Accounted for 56% of New Covid-19 Cases in February — March 16, 2022
- Freedom, Transparency, and Good Government Require Keeping Regulations Under Control — (Freedom Focus) — March 1, 2022
- Cooper Order Tries to Circumvent State Environmental Rulemaking — February 17, 2022
- Cooper Tries to Order North Carolinians to Change How They Go Places — February 8, 2022
- Cooper Tries to Change the Entire North Carolina Economy with an Order — February 7, 2022
- Who Contracted Covid-19 in NC in December? — January 24, 2022
- “Zero Risk” Is Too Risky for Me (Carolina Journal) — January 21, 2022
- He Didn’t Build That: How Cooper’s Corporate Welfare Could Cost Taxpayers Up to $586K/Job — January 11, 2022
- Corporate Welfare Blowout: Gov. Cooper Pledged $1.3 Billion to Just 58 Corporations in 2021 — January 6, 2022
2021
- Government Exists To Protect Our God-Given Individual Rights (Freedom Focus) — December 16, 2021
- Why We Should Be Thankful for the Freedom to Gather Together (Freedom Focus) — December 9, 2021
- Biden’s HHS: We Don’t Have Time to Review Regulations, We’re Too Busy Enforcing Them — November 24, 2021
- Who Is Contracting Covid-19 in NC? — November 19, 2021
- How Much Damage to Our Coastal Communities and Ecology For a Biden/Cooper ‘Win’ on Wind? — November 9, 2021
- The NC Threat-Free Index Explained — October 27, 2021
- A Toast to Expanding Alcohol Freedom in North Carolina — October 22, 2021
- A New Law Means Higher Electricity Costs Are Coming, But Does It Stop Even Worse Rate Hikes? — October 20, 2021
- Widespread Natural Immunity Underscores Why Vaccine Mandates Must End, Now — October 7, 2021
- DHHS Data Show Strength of Natural Immunity in North Carolina — October 6, 2021
- Energy Crossroads, Part 2: Reliable, Cost-Effective Alternatives to Cooper’s Disastrous Plan — September 22, 2021
- Energy Crossroads, Part 1: Cooper’s Plan Is Unnecessary and Fraught with Costs to Consumers and the Environment — September 21, 2021
- Forgotten men and women: ‘the unvaccinated’ also includes the naturally immune (Carolina Journal)— September 21, 2021
- What Are School Mask Mandates Doing to Children? — September 7, 2021
- A “Record” Year in Film Shows the Wisdom in Limiting Film Grants — September 2, 2021
- The House Budget Had Good Ideas for Opticians, and the Final Budget Can, Too — August 17, 2021
- North Carolina: No Excess Deaths From Covid Since Mid-March — July 29, 2021
- On Prof. Mike Adams’ suicide, one year later (Carolina Journal) — July 23, 2021
- How an Overzealous Licensing Board’s Threat Shows the Need for Structural Licensing Reform — July 16, 2021
- “Need”? Health Consumers Don’t Need So Much Time Wasted, Money Spent on CON Shenanigans — July 8, 2021
- How Much Are Cooper’s Orders to Blame for Non-Covid Excess Deaths in North Carolina? — June 25, 202
- Cooper’s Corporate Welfare Hypocrisy Hits New Lows — June 17, 2021
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue to Plummet in North Carolina — June 1, 2021
- Is North Carolina already at herd immunity? (Carolina Journal) — May 27, 2021
- North Carolina Needs to Free Its Distilleries and Other Alcoholic Beverage Enterprises — May 19, 2021
- Reducing the Burden to Get a License to Teach Cosmetic Arts — May 13, 2021
- If Biden can support keeping nuclear power operating, can Cooper? — May 12, 2021
- NC’s licensing turf wars threaten yet another profession (Carolina Journal) — May 11, 2021
- “Lowest cost generation available”: legislators seek to help NC’s electricity consumers — April 26, 2021
- Regulatory sandboxes: Test runs with lighter regulation for innovative products — April 22, 2021
- Legislators consider ways to encourage broadband expansion into unserved parts of NC — April 16, 2021
- Buttress rules review in NC with legislative rules ratification of costly rules — April 7, 2021
- NC needs bold action, not little tugs, to cut out unnecessary licensing (Carolina Journal) — March 19, 2021
- Why EMA reform is so urgent: Cooper’s abuse of emergency powers is a year old — March 17, 2021
- Research warns lockdowns and other restrictions have deadly consequences. What about Cooper’s? Part 3 — March 10, 2021
- Research warns lockdowns and other restrictions have deadly consequences. What about Cooper’s? Part 2 — March 5, 2021
- Research warns lockdowns and other restrictions have deadly consequences. What about Cooper’s? Part 1 — March 4, 2021
- Nine states now have enacted universal license recognition. Why not North Carolina? — February 25, 2021
- Provide just compensation for business owners hammered by Cooper’s orders — February 19, 2021
- Shine the light on North Carolina’s regulatory dark matter — February 12, 2021
- How Cooper and Stein trashed their promises to electricity consumers in two devastating settlements (Carolina Journal) — February 11, 2021
- New research warns: the death toll from lockdowns will far exceed that of COVID-19 — February 9, 2021
- Rural broadband expansion needs policymakers to clear the way for private enterprise — February 2, 2021
- NC regulatory reform helped inspire a federal reform — and here’s what else it can do — January 20, 2021
- Cooper pledged over half a billion dollars to 48 cronies as NC lost over 222K jobs — January 15, 2021
- Japan: no COVID lockdown, no testing asymptomatic people, and no excess deaths — January 12, 2021
2020
- Does Cooper’s own research justify his extreme orders? Part 3 — December 16, 2020
- Does Cooper’s own research justify his extreme orders? Part 2 — December 15, 2020
- Does Cooper’s own research justify his extreme orders? Part 1 — December 7, 2020
- Thanksgiving week NC Threat-Free Index despite Cooper scaremongering — November 24, 2020
- Businesses are closing forever as Cooper plays favorites — November 17, 2020
- Are Gov. Cooper’s Executive Orders having devastating health effects? — November 10, 2020
- Why We Need the NC Threat-Free Index — November 5, 2020
- How long? Cooper wants drastic local crackdowns and fines to become “normal” — October 26, 2020
- How many COVID-19 cases in N.C. were actually even cases? (Carolina Journal) — October 16, 2020
- EPA advisor smashes Cooper and Cohen’s “case” for masks — October 15, 2020
- The Fog of Covid-19 Data: Hospitalizations and Deaths — October 12, 2020
- The Fog of COVID-19 Data: How many cases aren’t even cases? — October 9, 2020
- Central Planning on Steroids, Part 2: Cooper cripples businesses statewide, but gives a few corporations big bucks — September 30, 2020
- Central Planning on Steroids, Part 1: Cooper has pledged nearly half a billion dollars to 22 corporations — September 29, 2020
- By Gov. Cooper’s own standards, NC should be open — September 21, 2020
- Tell Gov. Cooper: Facts and data support getting out, talking with people, and being neighborly again — September 15, 2020
- Debt settlement is a better option for those who need it than bankruptcy — September 3, 2020
- What does the science say about Cooper forcing healthy people to wear masks? — August 31, 2020
- Cooper and Cohen’s dilemma: Wanting to keep all restrictions but claim their mask order worked — August 18, 2020
- The nation’s most impressive occupational licensing reform law — August 13, 2020
- Cooper administration offers unconvincing case for requiring masks — August 5, 2020
- Judge Covid decides: Going back to school — July 28, 2020
- The Fog of COVID-19 Data: Why is North Carolina so delinquent in reporting death data to the CDC? — July 21, 2020
- Flattening the curve always meant having higher hospitalizations now — June 19, 2020
- Wait, why do we require so much training for barbers? — June 17, 2020
- Dragging DSS’s hidden rules into the light is long overdue — June 10, 2020
- Freedom is the foundation for ensuring black lives matter — June 9, 2020
- Bill would bring universal license recognition to NC — May 20, 2020
- Public comment on the financing of fiber infrastructure construction — May 19, 2020
- Cooper’s shutdown kills a pub — May 12, 2020
- Electricity policy in the post-COVID economy — May 7, 2020
- The post-COVID economy will need extensive occupational licensing reform — May 5, 2020
- No justification for Wake County blocking drive-through Easter service — April 9, 2020
- Access to anti-malaria ‘cocktail’ could protect our health care workers on the front lines — April 6, 2020
- Gun shops are essential to protect a fundamental right when it’s needed most — April 1, 2020
- Make it explicit that gun and ammo sales are essential services in an emergency — March 27, 2020
- Pandemic or not, the governor can’t issue orders unilaterally (Carolina Journal) — March 27, 2020
- The Ultimate Resource in the battle against the coronavirus — March 19, 2020
- North Carolina’s COVID-19 Response: Regulation and Red Tape — March 18, 2020
- New report on occupational licensing makes a strong case for reform — March 10, 2020
- The PRO Act Targets North Carolina’s Right-To-Work Status — March 2, 2020
- Energy production up and CO2 emissions down thanks to fracking — February 24, 2020
- Waste problems from wind and solar are why we need proper decommissioning (Carolina Journal) — February 18, 2020
- Waste problems from wind and solar? Yes, it’s why we need proper decommissioning — February 13, 2020
- What’s keeping us from finally modernizing liquor sales in NC? — February 3, 2020
- N.C. film advocates’ ideal film incentive program a shocking mess (Carolina Journal) — January 30, 2020
- Coal-ash settlement: Why did they all agree to it? — January 27, 2020
- Cooper’s picked the wrong policy combo on corporate taxes and welfare — January 20, 2020
- Rate Hikes Loom For Duke Customers, Thanks To Coal Ash Clean-Up Agreement — January 9, 2020
- Corporate Welfare Creates Headlines, Not Jobs as Promised — January 8, 2020
2019
- Why Aren’t We Benefitting From Falling Costs of Solar? — December 17, 2019
- PURPA Rules Change Could Help Electricity Consumers — December 9, 2019
- The Unintended Consequences of Franksgiving —November 18, 2019
- Keeping Zero-Emissions, Low-Cost Nuclear Power Saves Lives —November 11, 2019
- Economic Analysis Should Drive Gov. Roy Cooper’s New Film Council — November 5, 2019
- Restrictive Regulations Stand in the Way of More Housing Solutions — October 23, 2019
- More and More, North Carolinians Enjoy the Freedom to Choose Cars — October 17, 2019
- Media could learn a lesson on school choice in Wegmans mania (Carolina Journal) — October 4, 2019
- Media Could Learn a Lesson on School Choice in Wegmans Mania — September 30, 2019
- Don’t Mess with North Carolina’s Energy Policy If You Can’t Even Identify The Top Stakeholders — September 23, 2019
- Some Ways for a Light, Lean, Sensible Regulatory Climate — September 18, 2019
- Competitive Forces, Not Government, Are Behind NC’s Dramatic Fall in Emissions — September 9, 2019
- Raleigh’s Restrictions Could Make It Harder for Families Seeking Shelter from the Storms — September 4, 2019
- Lottery Sales Still Depend on Economic Desperation —August 28, 2019
- What Do Economists Think About a $15/hr. Minimum Wage? — August 12, 2019
- Study: State Giveaways to Film Productions Fail to Boost NC’s Economy — July 29, 2019
- North Carolina Needs a Broader Debate over Corporate Welfare — July 18, 2019
- Can Higher Property Taxes in Orange County Save the Planet? — July 8, 2019
- Another Chance to Strengthen Periodic Review of State Rules — July 1, 2019
- Lawmakers Should Support N.C.’s Industrial Hemp Industry — June 25, 2019
- Don’t Automatically Deny Occupational Licenses to People With Conviction Records — June 20, 2019
- It’s Time to Modernize and Adopt a License System for Liquor in North Carolina — June 13, 2019
- Relaxing Heavy Restrictions to Bring More Freedom to N.C. Distilleries — June 4, 2019
- Public-Choice Problems, and Why Special Interests Love Them So — June 3, 2019
- Lawmakers Mull a Tax Change on Hard Cider — May 20, 2019
- How Restrictive Should N.C. Make Its Licensing of General Contractors? — May 8, 2019
- We Don’t Need a Reboot of NC’s Unaccountable Film Tax Incentives — April 30, 2019
- Just Keep Compoundin’: Questioning the Economic Impact of a New Carolina Panthers headquarters in S.C. — April 23, 2019
- Moving from Licensing to Certification, and Let’s Not Stop There — April 11, 2019
- Local governments still don’t need to get in the broadband business (Carolina Journal) — April 9, 2019
- Hollywood Uses Film Incentive Fiction to Dictate Public Policy — April 2, 2019
- How Overregulation Killed Off Scooters in Raleigh — April 1, 2019
- The Green Real Deal: Cheap, Plentiful Natural Gas from Fracking — March 26, 2019
- Bill Would Allow Craft Breweries More Freedom to Self-Distribute — March 18, 2019
- Research: Alcohol-Related Problems Are Unrelated To State Liquor Controls — February 27, 2019
- Like Washington’s Mount Vernon in 1797, N.C. is primed for distillery growth (Carolina Journal) — February 22, 2019
- Practical Fixes To North Carolina’s Alcoholic Beverage Control System — February 20, 2019
- North Carolina’s Mass of Alcohol Regulations Needs Review — February 12, 2019
- Growth in Local Wineries and Distilleries Reflect Regulatory Differences — February 5, 2019
- When Controlling Alcohol Doesn’t Control Alcohol — January 29, 2019
- The ABC System Wants to Repurpose While Keeping Tight Control — January 22, 2019
- N.C. Should Replicate Ohio’s Occupational Licensing Reforms — January 15, 2019
2018
- Why incentives’ sway didn’t bring Apple our way (Carolina Journal) — December 14, 2018
- Businesses Prefer More Sensible Government Policies over Tax Incentives — December 5, 2018
- Economic Incentives Unlikely To Influence Corporate Relocations — November 29, 2018
- Wall Street Journal: ‘State AGs for rent.’ What about N.C.? (Carolina Journal) — November 9, 2018
- How Early American Socialism Nearly Starved Thanksgiving — November 15, 2018
- Gov. Cooper’s Climate Change Executive Order is Unnecessary, Panders to Special Interests — November 8, 2018
- Minimum Wage Hikes Leave Less-Experienced Workers Behind — October 25, 2018
- Another Long-Term Study Finds Fracking isn’t Contaminating Groundwater — October 17, 2018
- Time to Bury Regulations that Impede Funeral Directors — October 4, 2018
- Practical Compassion Lets Prices Rise During a Crisis — September 27, 2018
- North Carolina’s anti–price gouging law makes things worse, not better (Carolina Journal) — September 13, 2018
- Renewable Energy’s Promises Aren’t Enough; Do the Math, Policymakers — September 6, 2018
- North Carolina Lessons from New York Blabbermouths — August 30, 2018
- Licensing Reform Would Open Labor Markets, Reduce Recidivism Rates — August 15, 2018
- Georgia’s Movie Miracle Relies on Special Effects and Spurious Assumptions — August 15, 2018
- Film Incentives are Good for Film Productions, Not a State’s Economy — August 9, 2018
- New Mexico offers N.C. policymakers good licensing reform ideas (Carolina Journal) — August 6, 2018
- Georgia’s movie miracle relies on special effects and spurious assumptions (Carolina Journal) — August 3, 2018
- Helping Society Return to Civil Debate — August 2, 2018
- How Charlotte’s Economy is Helped by Republicans Being Unconventional — July 26, 2018
- Scare tactics to push government policies for renewable energy (Carolina Journal) — July 20, 2018
- As Other States Innovate, N.C. Clings to an Outdated Licensing Regime — July 19, 2018
- We’ll Always Have…Lower Emissions Without Paris — July 12, 2018
- Medical Insurance Reimbursement Doesn’t Justify Creating New Occupational Licenses — June 28, 2018
- Stay Vigilant in the Fight Against Red Tape — June 21, 2018
- State Budget 2018: Film Grants — May 31, 2018
- Hold the Applause for “Transformative” Corporate Welfare for Apple Inc. — May 24, 2018
- Salisbury’s Municipal Broadband Woes Were Predictable — May 10, 2018
- More States End Film Incentives While North Carolina Triples Down — May 2, 2018
- Nebraska Joins the De-Licensing Revolution, While North Carolina Sits — April 26, 2018
- Emissions from Electricity Generation Falling Thanks to Market Forces — April 19, 2018
- UNC’s Faculty Resolution Hearkens Back to Defeat of Speaker Ban Law — April 19, 2018
- The WSJ finds a model for licensing reform that should look familiar (Carolina Journal) — April 6, 2018
- Personal Responsibility, Employment, and the Need for Sound Policy — March 28, 2018
- A teachable moment missed with the national school walkout (Carolina Journal) — March 14, 2018
- The Right to Earn a Living Act: Licensing Should Serve a Legitimate Public Purpose — March 8, 2018
- The Right to Earn a Living Act: A Well-Considered Answer to Licensing — March 8, 2018
- Emotion Is a Poor Guide When a Civil Right Is at Stake — March 1, 2018
- How Many Ways Does Red Tape Impede the Economy? — February 15, 2018
- Cronyism Making Renewables ‘Competitive’ But Won’t Help Pay Your Light Bill — February 8, 2018
- Look to Florida for a “Rules Throttle” That’s Working — January 31, 2018
- Trump’s Solar Tariff Is a Bad Idea — January 25, 2018
- Hiking the minimum wage breaks first rule of policies to help the poor (Carolina Journal) — January 19, 2018
- Throttling down some on costly rulemaking — January 18, 2018
- Hiking the minimum wage breaks the first rule of public policies to help the poor — January 10, 2018
2017
- How N.C. Makes It Harder for People with Conviction Records to Work — November 30, 2017
- Study: N.C. Places Bigger Burdens on Low-Income Jobs Than Most Other States — November 30, 2017
- Trump Administration Clearing Out Obstacles to Domestic Energy Production — November 7, 2017
- The Stricter the Requirements, the More an Occupational License Hurts Job Creation — October 25, 2017
- Good Riddance to Obama’s Clean Power Plan — October 19, 2017
- Film Grants and Creeping Cronyism Only Help Outside Film Production Companies — October 10, 2017
- Amazon project a big deal, but their asking price is much too much (Carolina Journal) — September 22, 2017
- Media: Tax Cuts for Corporations OK for Amazon, Not Others — September 20, 2017
- A Regulatory Reform That’s Working: Sunset Provisions with Periodic Review — August 17, 2017
- Helping the Poor With (and Without) Public Policy — August 16, 2017
- What Would House Bill 589 Mean for Energy Consumers? — June 20, 2017
- North Carolina needs an alternative to occupational licensing (Carolina Journal) — May 25, 2017
2016
- Trump sounds the right tone on regulation (Carolina Journal) — December 2, 2016
- Matthew’s aftermath reminds us of electricity’s importance (Carolina Journal) — October 13, 2016
- HB 2 and Beyond (Carolina Journal) — August 4, 2016
- Payday lenders are not a good option, and some people still need them — May 17, 2016
- Poll Pushes Renewable Energy Cronyism (Carolina Journal) — May 5, 2016
- Cutting red tape would overwhelm any Bathroom Bill impacts — April 28, 2016
- The Chamber seeks part-time temp help making a mockery of economics — April 13, 2016
- The News & Observer’s cruel plan for the poor — April 7, 2016
- What to bear in mind when discussing occupational licensing reform — March 31, 2016
- Draft bill would herald more labor freedom in North Carolina — March 23, 2016
- Think past a Hobson’s choice of occupational licensing — March 9, 2016
- The laughable idea that renewable energy is or ever will be ‘least cost’ — March 1, 2016
- Apply some good horse sense to ‘economic impact’ studies — February 25, 2016
- Beginning to notice the ‘solar bubble’ — February 18, 2016
- Blocking an out-of-control federal agency — February 9, 2016
- More red tape means more income inequality — January 27, 2016
- Cutting Red Tape the Canadian Way (Carolina Journal) — January 12, 2016
2012–16
Research Papers
- Analysis of Duke Energy’s Carolinas Carbon Plan and a Least Cost Decarbonization Alternative (with Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling) — July 20, 2022
- Big Blow: Offshore Wind Power’s Devastating Costs and Impacts on North Carolina — June 1, 2022
- North Carolina’s Success with Sunset Provisions Should Allay HHS’s Worries — January 3, 2022
- Proposed Offshore Wind Farm Project Risks Serious Ecological, Environmental, and Economic Harms — August 27, 2021
- Expanding Rural Broadband Access in North Carolina — March 24, 2021
- Carolina Rebound: Red Tape, Overregulation, and Law — May 21, 2020 (regulatory reforms to boost economic recovery post-Covid: employment, rules and red tape, broadband, energy, alcohol, and criminal justice)
- North Carolina’s Alcoholic Beverage Control System: Liberating consumers and distillers from oppressive government control — May 8, 2019 (ABC System)
- North Carolina’s Alcoholic Beverage Control System: How it works and why it should be modernized — February 15, 2019 (ABC System)
- GenX — October 17, 2018
- Modernizing North Carolina’s Outdated Occupational Licensing Practices — September 21, 2017
- Reforming PURPA Energy Contracts — June 6, 2017
- Cleaning Up the Regulatory Toolshed — March 14, 2017 (sunset provisions with periodic review)
- The Market Forces Behind North Carolina’s Falling Emissions — January 31, 2017
- Keep North Carolina Working — October 12, 2016 (minimum wage)
- Natural Gas — June 12, 2016
- Reining in Regulation — November 6, 2015
- Renewable Energy — June 4, 2015
- Voluntary Certification — April 9, 2015
- The FCC’s Anticompetitive Greenlight — March 2, 2015 (municipal broadband)
- The Chemicals in Fracking Fluids — August 28, 2014
- Facts on Fracking — August 12, 2014
- Certified: The Need to Repeal CON — October 24, 2013
- Not Written in Stone — June 5, 2013 (sunset provisions with periodic review)
- Power to the People — March 28, 2013 (REPS mandate)
- Take the REINS — March 12, 2013
- For Their Own Good — February 27, 2013 (short-term loans)
- Guild By Association — January 28, 2013 (occupational licensing)
- N.C.’s Film Tax Incentives — July 18, 2012
- Carolina Cronyism: Introduction, Overview, and Reforms — July 18, 2012
- Catch Shares — May 2, 2012
- Just Not Worth the Gamble — February 2, 2011 (NC lottery)
- Job Training That Works — February 28, 2008
