Thomas Catenacci writes at FoxNews.com about a new approach toward banks that focus more on being woke than providing traditional banking services. Republican state officials are readying plans to punish…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on the state treasurer’s effort to monitor federal trade policy’s impact on state investments. John Hood’s Daily Journal highlights six statistics that help…
Pay for teachers and other state employees has generated headlines in news coverage of the budget this year, in part because there have been no legislative salary increases in five…
Sarah Okeson profiles the N.C. House District 9 election for Carolina Journal Online. John Hood’s Daily Journal explores billions of dollars of unfunded health and pension benefits for N.C. government…
• Now that Janet Cowell (at right) has announced she will not seek a third term as state treasurer, possible successors are making their intentions known (or rumored). Among those…
Dan Way reports on legislation to give the North Carolina state treasurer more investment flexibility. Donna Martinez’s Daily Journal dissects a new law limiting state government’s ability to take on…
WTVD asked the John Locke Foundation to react to the state treasurer’s efforts to detect fraud, waste, and abuse within the state retirement system.
You can bet the final hours of any legislative session will be chock full of shenaningans and hijinks. This short session’s no different. Just review the past few days of…
Rick and Daren explain the problems with Senate Bill 20 which will extend taxpayer funded campaigns to the State Treasurer’s race. Where will the money come from? The taxpayer, of…
The thing that gets me is that this Jim Trogdon character evidently really thought — on some level — that NC DOT could guarantee private debt without much input or…
In today’s Carolina Journal Online exclusive, Michael Lowrey explores the poor performance of taxpayer investments in sports and sports-related projects. John Hood’s Daily Journal examines the race for State Treasurer.
Despite the solid funding of state employee pensions (unlike the massive unfunded liability for future health benefits), SEANC and others continue to question State Treasurer Richard Moore’s investment team and…