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JLF’s Joe Coletti recently commented on Medicaid Expansion for Governing magazine. Coletti comments that one reason many legislators hesitate to expand Medicaid in North Carolina is due to the upcoming…
Since 2013, the number of government job postings has increased 11% but the number of applicants has fallen 35%. A recent report the National Association of State Chief Admistrators considers…
John Hood writes for Carolina Journal’s Daily Journal: The average public-school district in the United States enrolls about 3,700 students, according to a recent Governing magazine analysis. In North Carolina,…
“For those who have an appetite for politics and the free time to pursue it, this is a journalistic Golden Age,” Alan Ehrenhalt, senior editor of Governing magazine, writes. “For…
North Carolina and Florida have solid Republican legislative majorities who want voters to ensure tax rates remain low into the future. Florida voters will decide whether to require two-thirds of…
Reaction to President Trump’s proposal to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum is coming in rapidly, with many folks pointing out the negative consequences of such a poorly thought out…
The ObamaCare devastation continues. From Governing magazine comes word of what we’re in for nationwide if the ObamaCare mandate on volunteer fire departments isn’t lifted. Nationally, volunteers account for nearly 70…
Louis Jacobson, writing for Governing magazine, handicaps key legislative races around the country, including in North Carolina. His prediction: In this purple-to-red Southern state where the Democrats control the governorship…
Jack Betts worries the state may cut essential services if tax reform is not also a tax increase. But the budget passed for FY2010 is $750 million more than actual…
Jay, I’m so glad we have Governing magazine and Triangle Business Journal. Who else could tell us the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis is a colossal waste of taxpayer…
The Triangle Business Journal (hard copy only–sorry) has an article out today about how the research campus at Kannapolis is “wobbling” due to anticipated tenants pulling back. Pepsi and Wilmington-based…
Gerald Miller in Governing Magazine again provides terrifically valuable explanations of pension and retiree health care costs. His latest includes this: There is nothing whatsoever inherent about a defined benefit…