Editors at the Washington Examiner explain why voters and consumers should beware of corporate CEOs who propose new government regulations. We’ve seen this play before. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants…
Timothy Carney of the Washington Examiner explains why California’s now-abandoned high-speed rail line was not a total failure (at least in the eyes of its major advocates). California high-speed rail…
Beyond their recommendations for the new General Assembly, John Locke Foundation researchers were busy focusing on other topics this week. The Charlotte Observer interviewed Michael Sanera, Director of Research and…
OK. No federally subsidized bonds for the Carolina USA Performance Park, the $750m. scheme to fill the 2.4 million square feet of the old Philip Morris cigarette plant with something.…
In addition to its work critiquing local sales-tax proposals and its promotion of free-market, limited-government ideas that helped propel conservative candidates to electoral success this week, the John Locke Foundation…
Carolina Journal’s David Bass reports today on the latest uses of Golden Leaf grant dollars. As part of 150 grants in the last cycle, the foundation gave $200,000 to the…
Residents of Cabarrus County can say an early goodbye to the county’s biggest taxpayer and employer of over 2,000 people. Taxes and government regulation have consequences.
In a long lead editorial in yesterday’s paper, the Winston-Salem Journal endorses FDA regulation of tobacco, reasoning that the “government has the right, and the duty, to protect its citizens…
A new opinion from the N.C. Court of Appeals upholds an earlier Business Court ruling ordering arbitration in the dispute between state government and major tobacco companies. The state had…
According to the International Herald Tribune: After decades of effort, a Senate panel has approved legislation that would give the top U.S. health agency broad regulatory authority over tobacco products,…
After receiving a combined $1.06 million in incentives from Concord and the state, Philip Morris has decided that it’s best to close the very plant that the incentives were used…
FDA regulation of cigarettes: Congressional advocates said they expected the bill to pass the House by a veto-proof margin. On the Senate side more than 30 senators have signed on.…