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The News & Observer ran one of its occasional “fact checks” on a recent statement by former Democratic Sen. Floyd McKissick before the General Assembly. He said, while calling for…
This week, Carolina Journal’s Don Carrington reported on the continuing controversy surrounding North Carolina’s renewable energy tax credits. Carrington explains the situation: Before January 2016, developers of solar and other…
Amity Shlaes pens a paean to MetLife in the latest issue of Forbes. “THANK YOU, MetLife.” That’s what we all ought to be saying this month, as the insurance company…
The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek documents recent challenges against the regulatory overreach tied to the Dodd-Frank financial reforms. In 2014 a New Jersey mortgage lender called PHH found itself…
That is exactly the question former Senator and current Mayor of Charlotte Dan Clodfelter answered in an opinion piece he had published in the Charlotte Observer today. He brings up…
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute reminds us in his latest National Review Online column that both major parties have been guilty of supporting corporate welfare. The most recent example…
Jim McTague details in his latest “D.C. Current” column for Barron’s the political maneuvering behind a big Capitol Hill victory for insurance companies. Last week, the insurance industry pulled off…
Don’t let MetLife coming to town fool you. The financial services sector continues to evolve in ways that are reducing headcount. As Bloomberg News reports: MetLife Inc. the largest U.S.…
View in your browser. Local media consumers may have picked up a bit of trivia lately: North Carolina’s new governor isn’t a Democrat. This break from The Way Things Are…
The Winston-Salem Journal interviewed John Hood for an article about Gov. Pat McCrory’s budget proposals for nonprofit groups. The Triangle Business Journal cited Hood in a tax reform story. (A…
WRAL Television quoted John Hood in a story this week on the impact in North Carolina of the “policy nonprofit” sector. That story devoted a Web page to the John…
To the tune of $2.9 million in incentive money. From the UPoR: Commissioners Chairwoman Pat Cotham said questions about the timing of the incentives vote started to enter her mind…