“To be rather than to seem” is a great guiding principle for effective public policy. Many policies started with good intentions don’t bring about the desired outcomes. Policymakers guided by…
A bill before the General Assembly would address what's known as regulatory dark matter. It would make executive agencies bring their unseen rules into the light as rules.
Defeating a virus. This isn’t a fight we expected, but know this: it’s a war a free society is uniquely geared to win. That’s because, as Ronald Reagan put it…
One of the many things I like about living in North Carolina is the extent to which North Carolinians live up to the state motto: “Esse Quam Videri” (“To Be…
Esse Quam Videri. To be rather than to seem. That's our motto. It means we prize being genuine, not fake; doing the job, not acting the part; striving for the…
To be helping people with well-considered policies is far, far, far preferable than to seem to be helping them but actually harming them with ill-conceived, well-seeming policies.
Why we oppose the state’s anti-“gouging” law enforcing pre-disaster pricing Laws that forbid price increases during extreme events have bad unintended consequences at the very worst of times. Precisely because…
Business North Carolina's new cover praises Gov. Roy Cooper for rolling up his sleeves and … giving more government goodies to business.
Red4EdNC has issued its own “declaration” a week before Independence Day. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for the people of a state to confront a…
John Hood wrote this week about the instructive philosophy of Cicero. Wait, don’t go yet. Cicero wasn’t just the “Roman orator and statesman … contemporary (and enemy) of Julius Caesar…
It's important for policymakers to apply this principle of being rather than seeming to their policies.
North Carolina’s gubernatorial candidates reacted to the Colonial Pipeline shutdown that is temporarily affecting gasoline supplies in North Carolina in ways that reflect their differing approach to governing. Attorney General Cooper tightened…