As the school year is set to begin, teachers and administrators are probably reevaluating their security procedures in the wake of the recent mass shootings. Though many options are probably…
Earlier this month the Mercatus Center at George Mason University released a Policy Brief on "The State of Occupational Licensure in North Carolina."
The Institute for Justice has published a new edition of its landmark License to Work study of occupational licensing of 102 low- to middle-income jobs. Here's what the new study…
In advance of Monday’s presentation to the John Locke Foundation, Dick Carpenter of the Institute for Justice describes the problems created by “bottleneckers.” Those on the Left and the Right…
This morning, I pulled off to the side of the road and stopped for a fire truck with its signal blaring. It’s something people in Michigan did all the time.…
Last night, I let my paranoid hair hang down long enough to take the Mountain Xpress’ best-of survey. (I don’t think they would appreciate me linking a conservative crowd thereto.)…
Proceeding backward, the moral of the story is, with as many laws as we have, people who don’t care to play by the rules aren’t going to obey the new…
Readers of this morning’s News & Observer editorial page will encounter a national opinion piece questioning the need for so many occupational licenses. The average cosmetologist in the United States…
View in your browser. This week the Institute for Justice issued a comprehensive report on occupational licensing across the United States. The study, written by Dick M. Carpenter II, Lisa…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that allows the family of Atlas Fraley to proceed with its lawsuit against an…
The Smoky Mountain Center for Mental Health is closing a facility due to a shortage of psychiatric nurses. It proposes as an alternative a roving band of psychiatrists and nurses…
It was a typical Asheville City Council meeting. It opened with a long public hearing with members of city council trying to get a developer to commit to LEED certifying…