Rights & Regulation newsletter links, 2012-16

Corrected links for the Rights & Regulation Newsletter

2016

• Payday lenders are not a good option, and some people still need them — May 17, 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

2015

• Renewable energy claims hinge on misrepresentation — December 3, 2015
• Taking a look at the differing electricity subsidies — November 22, 2015
• The opportunity costs of overregulation are massive — November 11, 2015
• North Carolina’s regulatory burden and the need for a state REINS Act — November 5, 2015
• When stakeholders attack; i.e., voice their interests — October 29, 2015
• Renewable energy facilities gobble up subsidies, natural habitats — October 21, 2015
• Reforms to start fighting overcriminalization in North Carolina — October 8, 2015
• Legislature votes to repeal Certificate of Public Advantage — September 30, 2015
• What’s a stakeholder, anyway? — September 24, 2015
• Barely clearing the air on removing useless vehicle emissions inspections — September 17, 2015
• Renewable energy has been ‘almost there’ since the 1970s — September 9, 2015
• The steep price of extending the sunset on a special-interest tax credit — September 3, 2015
• Texas occupational license ruling another warning to North Carolina — August 26, 2015
• Physics: another enemy of renewable energy. Oh, and forget about battery storage. — August 19, 2015
• Counting the costs of renewable energy and traditional energy sources — August 16, 2015
• Occupational licensing’s bad effects are increasingly hard to ignore — August 5, 2015
• A homeowner’s lament and the overcriminalizing mindlessness of overregulation — July 8, 2015
• Energy policies have much bigger impacts on people than previously thought — July 1, 2015
• Study authors surprised to discover energy-efficiency programs cost more than they’re worth — June 24, 2015
• Debating North Carolina’s renewable energy policies — June 17, 2015
• Article cautions legislature against acquiescing to the EPA’s takeover — June 11, 2015
• Reports discuss the high costs of government mandates in health care and energy policy — June 4, 2015
• Renewable industry report admits renewable energy partly responsible for electricity rate increases — May 28, 2015
• DENR report: government policies guarantee return of ‘almost all’ investment in solar — May 20, 2015
• Study urges states not to rush compliance with the EPA’s Clean Power Plan — May 14, 2015
• North Carolina House takes a stand for electricity consumers — April 29, 2015
• Proposing a 118th government program to help renewable energy in North Carolina — April 22, 2015
• Reliable, least-cost electricity is the best policy — April 15, 2015
• Electricity isn’t primarily about jobs; it’s about the price at the flip of the switch — April 7, 2015
• Nonsense with big numbers: how to get legislators to support your industry — April 1, 2015
• Academic center: Reform licensing to help people in poverty find work and opportunity — March 25, 2015
• The negative economic effects of North Carolina’s RPS mandate — March 18, 2015
• A beckoning opportunity for health care reform — March 12, 2015
• The FCC’s bad decision to overturn state law concerning municipal broadband — March 2, 2015
• Two recently concluded legal battles over anticompetitive occupational licensing in N.C. — February 25, 2015
• Effectively fighting poverty in North Carolina — February 18, 2015
• Editors: Hey, other states are still cliff-diving with big film incentives, so … — February 11, 2015
• Licensure’s safety and quality benefits remain elusive — February 4, 2015
• Rail consensus deniers desperately want a white elephant for Wake — January 29, 2015
• How the process of government regulation can impact religious freedom and economic growth — January 21, 2015
• Pew report shows just how heavily solar companies rely on government handouts — January 15, 2015
• Why the North Carolina film industry will continue — January 8, 2015

2014

• Diner discounts and fast-food wage hikes — December 10, 2014
• What Cicero can teach North Carolina about policies to help the poor — December 4, 2014
• Nothing will come of nothing, as overregulation leers — November 19, 2014
• Videos killed the ACA star — November 13, 2014
• Rail Consensus Denial could threaten Wake County residents — November 5, 2014
• Facts: may they ever be stubborn and bothersome — October 30, 2014
• The campaign for a much larger minimum wage should be sobered by McDonald’s’ struggles — October 21, 2014
• Anticompetitive licensure gets an overdue judicial check-up — October 16, 2014
• No, don’t deny forced-sterilization victims compensation on a technicality — October 9, 2014
• Another landmark study finds no groundwater contamination from fracking — October 1, 2014
• The fracking process doesn’t contaminate drinking water, not even in Texas — September 18, 2014
• Being vs. seeming in the minimum-wage debate — September 16, 2014
• Work at today’s minimum wage is better than ‘moral’ unemployment — September 3, 2014
• It’s hard to count the cost of crony shenanigans — August 19, 2014
• With hydraulic fracturing, well construction is the key — August 5, 2014
• No, fracking won’t make your water burn — July 17, 2014
• Hey, Raleigh: What can IMPLAN do for you? — July 8, 2014
• Why Paul Krugman is taking potshots at Kansas — July 2, 2014
• The case for reforming North Carolina’s automobile insurance system — June 19, 2014
• Another state gobsmacked by the costs of its renewable portfolio standards — June 10, 2014
• Addressing concerns over hydraulic fracturing coming to North Carolina — June 5, 2014
• McCrory’s revamp of film incentives is well considered, but not better than sunset — May 28, 2014
• Poll reveals need to free NC electricity consumers, not shackle them with RPS mandates — May 22, 2014
• Beyond CON: North Carolina’s Certificate of Public Advantage — May 12, 2014
• Effectively fighting poverty through freedom — May 7, 2014
• Lottery sales still depend upon economic desperation — April 24, 2014
• The UNC professor who’s leading the fight for free speech and academic freedom — April 16, 2014
• Fiscal Research analysis slams new study finding huge returns from film incentives — April 3, 2014
• Of occupational licensure, a person’s fundamental right to earn a living, and Captain Obvious — March 27, 2014
• Just 19 cents on the dollar? — March 18, 2014
• Triangle light-rail advocates have no logical answer to expert consensus — March 4, 2014
• The Four P’s of Electricity Competition — February 27, 2014
• The problem of regulatory accumulation — February 20, 2014
• Ninth Circuit: If you like your gun, you can keep your gun. And bear it. — February 13, 2014
• Three principles for better land-use policies — February 6, 2014
• Is N.C.’s costly renewable energy mandate also unconstitutional? — January 29, 2014
• High Point’s plan, Wilmington’s golf course, and UNC’s very big mess — January 23, 2014
• How Charlotte raced into the bad economic-impact projections Hall of Fame — January 14, 2014

2013

• Appeals court refuses to bail out cronyism for agent training — December 16, 2013
• The only consistent thing here is that they admit wind turbines slaughter eagles — December 10, 2013
• On Thanksgiving and the dynamism of private property — November 26, 2013
• Light rail in Wake County, the hotdog tree of broken dreams — November 17, 2013
• People, businesses like to get and spend free money, which is a revelation or something — November 6, 2013
• CON: Certificate of Need, or Cronyism Ongoing Now? — October 15, 2013
• Sunset Boulevard: The case for letting North Carolina’s film tax credits end — October 3, 2013
• Clearing the air on automobile emissions inspections — September 19, 2013
• What’s really making life more difficult for fast-food workers? It’s not their employers; it’s Obamacare — August 29, 2013
• Public cash for the film industry: the crutch that supposedly turns Tiny Tim into Superman — August 20, 2013
• How to soak ratepayers: play favorites on electricity sources and shield big utilities from risk — August 8, 2013
• Renewable energy’s in the headlines, and renewable energy’s not very happy about that — July 31, 2013
• Three reforms under the radar — July 28, 2013
• A potential one-two punch for job creation in North Carolina — July 17, 2013
• The left discovers a truth about regulation, but will they abort its broader application? — July 11, 2013
• So, about this theory that jobless benefits are a madly effective economic stimulus… — July 2, 2013
• Beer politics in N.C.; or, why I prefer refreshing Reg Lite to stale Old Cronyism — June 26, 2013
• City land-use regulations price the poor out of homes. Gosh, where have we heard that before? — June 11, 2013
• The sun also rises — complementing sunset provisions with sunrise provisions — June 6, 2013
• McCrory’s economic development vision wants to pay Paul differently — May 29, 2013
• Reviewing a proposal for periodic review and expiration of state rules — May 21, 2013
• Sunrise, sunset: important reforms to thwart fiddling on the rules — May 15, 2013
• A tale of two polls about North Carolina’s renewable energy mandate — May 7, 2013
• Leave the costs aside for a second. Did you hear Iron Man saved North Carolina? — May 1, 2013
• Fight over North Carolina’s renewable energy portfolio standards pits poor captive ratepayers against special interests — April 25, 2013
• Take the full measure of state economic incentives — April 17, 2013
• The energy over energy in the legislature — April 10, 2013
• Advocates demand life support for their wildly successful industry; bill seeks to clarify the ‘Public’ part of the Public Staff — April 4, 2013
• New report exposes North Carolina’s costly, regressive RPS — March 27, 2013
• Renewable energy portfolio standards: a costly tradeoff for what, exactly? — March 21, 2013
• Can’t we have legal midwifery in NC without tacking on yet another licensing board? — March 12, 2013
• You can’t pay bills with paternalism — February 28, 2013
• Good ‘red tape’ vs. regulatory rigmarole — February 13, 2013
• Higher energy prices for nothing: Resistance is futile? — February 6, 2013
• Time to unlock the economy from powerful licensing boards — January 30, 2013
• McCrory sure knows how to pick ’em  — January 24, 2013
• Time for legislators to rein in rulemaking — January 16, 2013

2012

• Try not to catch cold in NC, please; we have meth-heads — December 11, 2012
• They broke it; we bought it — November 11, 2012
• You can speak freely, but… — October 21, 2012
• Occupational licensing: Guild by association — October 11, 2012
• Liberty Bled Dry: The Legacy of Phlebotonomics — September 20, 2012
• Cherish the many things in life above politics — September 16, ?2012
• Why can’t we have a certificate of need for government busybodies? — September 5, 2012
• Occupational licensing: pricing the poor out of enterprise — August 28, 2012
• Unlicensed Christian charity: apostasy in the regulatory state — August 22, 2012
• African hair braiding in the Wild, Wild West — August 15, 2012
• Keep your head in the sand and reach for the stars — August 6, 2012
• No compensation this year for North Carolina’s forcible sterilization victims — June 20, 2012
• North Carolina ratepayers can’t afford corporate welfare going nuclear — May 23, 2012
• Is that a meth lab in your pants? — May 2, 2012
• The Green Emperor Has No Sprouts — April 18, 2012
• The Obama administration’s war on the poor and disadvantaged — April 4, 2012
• NC moves closer to joining the hydraulic fracturing revolution — posted March 28, 2012
• NC Film Incentive Credit backers play the Hunger for Validation game —  March 21, 2012
• A year after her veto, Gov. Perdue looks into fracking, likes it — March 14, 2012
• Fracking’s promise of jobs, growth too compelling to ignore — March 8, 2012