Liberty
Remembering the giants of the past
Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online looks back at great American achievements unlikely to be replicated today. We of the 21st century are beginning to look back at our…
Public works
Elections & Public Integrity
California’s high-speed rail proved successful … for the well-connected
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…
Liberty
Forsyth County spending spree
Mind you in the November election voters rejected a 1/4-cent sales tax hike to pay for a new Forsyth County courthouse. The courthouse project is still a go, but now…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Progressive Policies Continue to Harm Minorities
Today’s progressives would prefer not to talk about it, but it’s a fact that many of the policies that progressives promoted during the first half of the 20th century were…
Liberty
Re: Trump’s $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan
Getting the local angle out of the way, N&R columnist Susan Ladd (surprise) did care for President Trump’s State of the Union speech, adding her own annotations (in bold): “Together,…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on a bill that would help two struggling rural N.C. hospitals. John Hood’s Daily Journal describes the N.C. General Assembly’s decision to initiate…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The role of politics in deteriorating infrastructure
Alex Adrianson highlights for the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” blog the mismatch between the political process and maintenance of public infrastructure. Politics may indeed be a problem for the upkeep…
Transportation
Why the feds ought not to control transportation decisions
Emily Goff of the Heritage Foundation questions President Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on businesses and use the proceeds for federal transportation spending. First, Goff’s Daily Signal commentary pans the…
Liberty
But if Government Breaks the Windows . . .
I’m tired of fighting the paradigm that we need to create jobs, a concept disdained a few decades ago as derogatory and a failure to create meaningful employment. Now it…
Liberty
Time to Say Something Nice about Asheville
Contrary to opinion, or perhaps only to make opinion look bad, Asheville once again has the appearance of taking care of its water infrastructure, upgrading a long stretch of nasty,…
Liberty
I Call It Cow Manure
I suppose the old words weren’t working, so now the City of Asheville is pushing EDCIP. It’s short for Raising Taxes for Monument Building and Telling You It Will Make…
Liberty
Leisure Class
Swain County Sheriff Curtis Cochran told the commissioners prisoners are not cleaning trash off roadsides because both inmates and refuse are potential hazards that can ignite on contact.