Two oft-visited examples of scandalous behavior in North Carolina involve politics. At the state level, political breaths are being held in anticipation for the fallout following former Speaker of the House Jim Black’s guilty plea. While the air is charged in waiting, Governor Easley has nary said a word. John Hood takes note of the silence in the Charlotte Observer. He also notes in the same paper the widespread effects of our state’s current corrupt system that are spilling over into policy decisions. Even the Wall Street Journal cited the JLF as a source that linked leadership to self-interested policy decisions. Our frequent, unjustified, and misguided dependence on incentives as the lone economic development tool is eroding the public’s trust. It’s downright scandalous. That’s Chad Adams‘s message, and it hit the AP wire and the airwaves this week.
