Budget, Taxation & Economy
Which school districts spent more (or less) last year?
Here I go, here I go, here I go again (again?) Readers, what’s my weakness? (financial data published by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction!)
Beaufort County
county in South Carolina, United States
Elections & Public Integrity
Campaign dispatch, March 1, 2016
• As you await Super Tuesday results … • Ad wars: The presumed front-runners for each major party’s Senate nomination are on the air. Democrat Deborah Ross emphasizes economic security…
Health Care
Why North Carolina Lawmakers Should Not Settle For Certificate of Need Reform
View in your browser. As I write and you read, legislators have allegedly made final closed-door agreements on Certificate of Need (CON) reform — a law in which statists protect…
Health Care
Another Example of Certificate of Need Hurting Rural Health Care
Certificate of Need (CON) reform may have been pulled from a tentative budget agreement between the House and Senate chambers, but Mayor Adam O’Neal of Belhaven is relentless on keeping the…
Health Care
Mayor Of Belhaven Discusses How Certificate Of Need Law Harms Rural Health Care
Earlier today, Belhaven Mayor Adam O’Neal of Beaufort County delivered some passionate remarks in the Legislature’s presser on how North Carolina’s Certificate of Need program – a regulatory regime that approves…
Law & Public Safety
N.C. Appeals Court rules no compensation for posthumous pardons of innocence in Wilmington 10 case
There will be no state government compensation to the estates of four dead members of the so-called “Wilmington 10.” A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has…
New Bern drops, Kinston climbs in annual tax burden ranking
RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in New Bern totaled about $1,530 per person in the 2012 budget year, and the city dropped three spots to No. 28 on a…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the campaign trail, April 14, 2014
• The Rev. Mark Harris is on the air with his first ad in his quest for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. http://youtu.be/3xNso8IgWvI • Harris and six of the seven other…
Liberty
Film incentives, Medicaid, and national praise for a ‘leading critic’
North Carolina’s film incentives program is scheduled to sunset, but special interests are pushing for the program’s extension. As debate over the issue continues, Greensboro News & Record readers encountered…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
School districts matter (kinda)
In a new Brookings Institution study (pdf), Matthew Chingo, Grover Whitehurst, and Michael Gallaher use data from Florida and North Carolina to determine whether there is a relationship between school…
Liberty
Cats, birds and wind turbines
A little while back I pointed out how silly it is to counter the argument that wind turbines kill birds with the argument that cats kill more. So here’s two…
Liberty
Nuggets of wisdom from Carolina Journal
The infamous “chicken nuggets” story from Carolina Journal continues to attract attention across the country. Managing Editor Rick Henderson discussed recent developments with Bill LuMaye on WPTF Radio, while Associate…