Liberty
We Can Help Military Spouses. Here’s How.
The life of a military family is something the vast majority of us will never experience or truly understand. There is worry over the safety of the husband or wife…
John Szoka
American politician
Budget, Taxation & Economy
What I’m watching election night
After months of anticipation, piles of money spent, endless TV commercials watched and too many visits from candidates to count, the 2020 election is finally here. Several of my colleagues…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Should Lawmakers Grant Local Option Sales Tax Flexibility?
In 2011, Buncombe County commissioners and the president of the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College promised voters that, if passed, a quarter-cent tax increase on the ballot that year would pay…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed with a lower court that North Carolina’s old congressional maps featured two unconstitutional instances of racial gerrymandering. Rick Henderson analyzes the impact of that…
Liberty
Tim Moore nominated for second term as House speaker
House Republicans have nominated Rep. Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, for a second term as speaker. The vote among the GOP caucus was unanimous, according to a press report from Moore’s office.…
Energy
Putting inconvenient facts down the memory hole — a local example
In today’s Carolina Journal, publisher Jon Ham decries “a disturbing trend among mainstream news outlets these days”—which is “putting inconvenient news or facts ‘down the memory hole.’” Ham’s examples come…
Energy
How utterly, utterly impossible is battery storage for renewable electricity
Here is a line from this past Sunday’s issue of Fayetteville Observer, where real-world, adult concerns about the marked inefficiency of nondispatchable energy sources, the subsidies they receive, the costs imposed…
Liberty
Budget votes. Because they all matter.
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…
Liberty
It’s time to end NC’s forced usage of renewable energy
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,…
Liberty
Two views on Energy Freedom Act
No surprise –the N&R and John Locke Foundation have differing views on “Energy Freedom” legislation working its way through the legislature. Bottom line — Rep. John Szoka’s bill would allow…
Liberty
Good or bad, third party solar electricity sales are not free market
If an industry can only provide its product by using the state to force others to deal with them it is not a industry that can be functional in a…
Liberty
What We Lost
Today, people are counting wins and losses in terms of parties, and well they should. Personally, I’m licking the wounds for the loss of something else. I do not pretend…