series of reforms planned and executed by the German government which aimed to reform the German welfare system and labour relations
Here is a snippet from PrivatizeNC’s Change.org petition: North Carolina, along with 17 other states maintains a government monopoly on the sales of distilled alcohol. This means that private citizens…
View in your browser. Yesterday Gov. Pat McCrory made it clear that he is as adept at picking energy sources for the state as he was at picking transportation options…
According to a story on WRAL, “anyone convicted of a prior crime punishable by more than a year in prison cannot legally own a gun. For about two decades, federal…
It’s a highly cherished fiction1 by policymakers that they are the ones who create the jobs, not the millions of individual entrepreneurs and small-business owners making unobserved individual hires looking…
There’s been a lot of talk about jobs lately. Jobs, job creation and economic recovery will be the key issue discussed and debated during the upcoming state-wide elections. As always,…
The News & Observer reports: Perdue is proposing to combine the departments of Juvenile Justice, Correction and Crime Control, and Public Safety into a new Department of Public Safety. She…
View in your browser. Welcome In a recent Time magazine article, blogger Andrew Rotherham pointed out, "In education circles, productivity is a four-letter word." As I see it, a little…
As my colleague Karen Palasek discussed in the context of power companies supporting carbon taxes, In the literal Baptists and bootleggers story, Baptists want a legal prohibition of alcoholic beverage…
It’s not deja vu, you really have seen Gov. Perdue’s idea of moving Corrections, Crime Control & Public Safety, and Juvenile Justice into a single Department of Public Safety before.…
View in your browser. A "Save the Date" Announcement The John Locke Foundation research staff cordially invites you to attend our all-day "County Commissioner Policy Issues Workshop" in Raleigh on…
Justin Hembree, town manager of Tryon, thinks certain regulations may be hampering business downtown. Rather than directing staff to examine the town’s ordinances and shuck a few items, the town…
While I was looking at Agenda 2010 last night, I stumbled upon the following fascinating factoids: State government now spends $3 of federal money for every $4 it appropriates through…