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Executive Summary North Carolina policymakers have made good progress in recent years to help broadband providers close the state’s rural broadband gaps. Nevertheless, some gaps remain, and the impact of…
The obvious societal need for rural broadband signals opportunities for human ingenuity in the private sector. State policymakers should continue to focus on removing regulatory barriers to enable more rapid…
Jonathan Bydlak of the R Street Institute explains a new way of monitoring how Washington, D.C., politicians spend our money. Over the last few months, Congress has appropriated trillions of…
Shoshana Weissmann writes for the Washington Examiner about one positive development in the fight against COVID-19. Those of us who have been fighting for occupational licensing reform and other forms…
This week, the R Street Institute published an article on the small regulatory reforms states could make to help their citizens during the Coronavirus outbreak. States like Colorado, Massachusetts, and…
Carolina Journal reporter Lindsay Marchello has written a piece on the Passenger Protection Act, a bill to regulate ride-sharing services in North Carolina. According to Marchello, the bill comes as…
North Carolina is one of the states that make it very difficult for a recently released — and presumed rehabilitated — worker to find a job in his field. North…
Nathan Glazer died last week at the age of 95. He was one of the original neo-conservatives, when the term still meant “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.”…
What? North Carolina bans Happy Hour? About that …
From Carolina Journal’s Lindsay Marchello: It would take a catastrophic series of events for state insurance money to go dry, but that doesn’t remove the burdens, experts warn. Several storms…
Writing at starnewsonline.com, JLF President and CEO Kory Swanson and R Street Institute’s Ian Adams warn North Carolinians that our state would be hit especially hard if the ill-advised proposal…
North Carolina voters will face no photo ID requirement, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to address an Appeals Court ruling that struck down the state’s 2013 election…