The 2018 election cycle in North Carolina has started off with a few surprises after yesterday’s primary elections. Carolina Journal reports – The Rev. Mark Harris, who lost the 2016…
Date of Committee Meeting: Monday, January 22, 2018, 1:00 PM The Joint Select Committee on Judicial Reform and Redistricting met this Monday for the second time. The committee heard Administrative…
The Joint Legislative Committee on Judicial Redistricting and Reform met for the second time yesterday. For a large part of the meeting, they heard Administrative Office of the Courts’ reports…
Last spring, Rep. Justin Burr, R-Stanly, filed a bill that would establish new judicial and prosecutorial districts throughout the state and specify the number of judges and prosecutors for each…
Seems like it took a while for this one to wind its way through court —-CJ’s Don Carrington reports a federal judge has ruled in Alcoa’s favor in the lengthy…
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…
On Saturday, House Republicans will decide who succeeds Senator-elect Thom Tillis. To make my prediction, I used an online Magic 8 Ball. Here is how it played out. John Blust…
• Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper — who’s likely to run against McCrory in 2016 — agree that the process of drawing legislative and congressional…
Health Care Solutions Week: When legislators were wrapping up their session in August, they said they would be returning to have a special session about Medicaid reform. However, when the…
Film incentives are a bad deal for North Carolina taxpayers. It’s bad public policy. Job creation is questionable and reports are misleading. It is inconsistent with positive tax reforms. Over…
Got a piece out for Carolina Journal on the N.C> Court of Appeals rejecting the General Assembly’s attempt to award a monopoly on bail agent training in North Carolina. The…
View in your browser. One of the most consistent findings in economic research is that occupational licensing restricts the supply of service providers in the licensed field and thereby drives…