Carolina Journal reports on the two candidates vying for the open House District 16 seat: State House District 16, Pender and eastern Onslow counties. Carson Smith. Occupation: Sheriff of Pender…
Executive Summary In 2017, North Carolinians were alerted to the discharge of a relatively new, unregulated chemical compound called “GenX” as well as other, similar compounds in the Cape Fear…
Advocates for least-cost, reliable electricity will welcome the ideas in Rep. Chris Millis’ “NC Ratepayers Protection Act” (House Bill 745). They will especially appreciate Millis’ call for studying the actual subsidies and…
It’s a prospect Michael Bastasch explores for the Daily Caller. Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team are interviewing candidates to head up the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While media…
Budgets lay out priorities. Votes on the budget reflect priorities of lawmakers. The governor had his with a 2.3% increase in spending. The House passed a budget last week that…
From today’s News & Observer account of Thursday’s budget rollout: House members also added spending items that weren’t in McCrory’s plan, with some targeted toward specific counties. In the subcommittee…
View in your browser. An amended version of the regulatory reform bill (HB 760), sponsored by Reps. Chris Millis (R-Pender), John R. Bell IV (R-Wayne), and Dennis Riddell (R-Alamance), would…
You should know where JLF stands on N.C.’s mandate and subsidies for renewable energy and subsidies. We’ve written extensively about North Carolina’s renewable energy portfolio standards and what a bad…
The John Locke Foundation has opposed North Carolina’s renewable energy standards mandate since it first passed into law as Senate Bill 3 under liberal leadership in 2007. The imposition of…
View in your browser. 1. It’s time to end NC’s forced usage of renewable energy There is currently a bill in the legislature, introduced and sponsored by Representative Chris Millis,…
Republican NC House Representative Chris Millis voted against a piece of legislation that a majority of his fellow Republican House members supported. Why? It is a NEW TAX and completely…
View in your browser. If anyone thought that a change in political party in the governor’s mansion would produce a change in the belief that government is actually the state’s…