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A new report from the John Locke Foundation, “Energy Poverty in North Carolina: Securing Affordable, Reliable Power,” features a county-by-county energy poverty index for North Carolina. The previous research brief…
The town of Cary appears to be a sleepy suburb of Raleigh, but it is North Carolina’s seventh-largest municipality and has an annual budget of half a billion dollars. That…
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) has proposed a series of campaign finance rules and amendments. Brief summaries of the proposals are below, along with information on how…
As the late Nobel prize-winning economist Friedrich A. Hayek once wrote, all economies are planned. Buying, selling, saving, investing, and all other activities are the result of someone’s plan. As…
North Carolina is starting to progress toward statewide K–12 open enrollment, a type of school choice that lets parents choose any traditional public school with open seats in lieu of…
As we plod through the dog days of summer, parents and grandparents are often looking for new ideas for outings with the youngsters. One possibility to consider is visiting the…
During extreme heat waves and cold snaps, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under President Donald Trump has been issuing emergency orders that allow utilities to exceed their environmental emissions…
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) adopted several rule changes on July 16. The most controversial was a change from a requirement that county elections boards need a…
America’s housing shortage did not develop overnight, and it will not be solved with a single piece of legislation. Decades of restrictive zoning, burdensome permitting requirements, environmental review delays, parking…
The smoke from the fireworks has cleared. The memories of parades and picnics have faded. The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence has come and gone.…
A pair of bills on early voting were submitted in the General Assembly during this year’s short session. Neither went anywhere, but they exposed the mindsets of legislators from both…
Earlier this week the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education released new enrollment numbers for private schools and home schools in North Carolina. My colleague, Kaitlyn Shepherd, analyzed changes in…