On October 5, the John Locke Foundation and Carolina Journal published articles that attempted to calculate the amount North Carolina property taxpayers could have saved if there had been a…
As property tax bills have risen rapidly across the state, property tax reform has moved to the forefront at the General Assembly. Among the policy options under consideration are levy…
Taxes aren't the only reason people move, "but there is no denying a very strong correlation between low-tax, low-cost states and population growth," the article concludes.
In 1798, British economist Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population. In it, Malthus hypothesized that as the population grew, earth’s resources would become increasingly scarce, leading to the…
From Carolina Demography comes this chart that shows North Carolina’s explosive growth. This is why North Carolina is on the brink of securing a 14th congressional district.
You know what I’m talking about— liberals screaming at the top of their lungs not just about Republicans’ policies–cruel, inhumane, etc.–but about how those polices make North Carolina the laughingstock…
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online that the Federal Communications Commission chairman helped North Carolina celebrate its recent achievement of broadband access in every public school classroom. John Hood’s…
At FiveThirtyEight, Jed Kolko reports that: The suburbanization of America marches on. Population growth in big cities slowed for the fifth-straight year in 2016,1 according to new census data, while population…
There’s an interesting map in an online article from The Charlotte Observer today. It’s a county-by-county look at population change since the last census in 2016, and it shows clearly where…
John Tierney offers Barron’s readers a cheery assessment of The End of Doom, a new book from Reason magazine science writer Ronald Bailey. Bailey has a well-earned reputation for putting…
The UNC Population Center has updated data on how population growth since 2010 has impacted how many people live in each legislative and congressional district in the state. The key…
As the UPoR reports, the official estimate per the Census Bureau for 2014 for Charlotte was 809,958, up 2 percent from 2013. Doing the math, should that 2 percent a…