Liberty
Exposing Spanberger’s bait and switch
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online pokes holes in Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s promise to govern as a moderate. [O]nce Spanberger was in office, her moderate mask began to slip.…
Referendum
direct and universal vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal
Liberty
Top teachers group funneled millions to lefty activists
Andrew Mark Miller writes for FoxNews.com about a disturbing revelation involving a major national teachers union. One of the nation’s most prominent teachers unions funneled millions of dollars in union…
Liberty
Prospects for a Purple California
Editors at Issues and Insights ask whether California’s political color is shifting away from deep blue. Two days after Donald Trump won the election, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a…
Elections & Public Integrity
Progressive ballot initiatives fall flat
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon looks into ballot initiatives for left-of-center causes across the country. Major progressive referenda faced defeat Tuesday evening, with a series of rebuttals…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Election 2020: Local bond and tax ballot questions
The middle of an economic and public health crisis, when people are worried if they will still have work in December and the federal budget deficit is in excess of…
Liberty
Guilford County school bond trimmed to $300m
At last night’s contentious meeting, the Guilford Board of Commissioners approved a $300 million school bond that would go on the November ballot. The school system and liberal members of…
Liberty
Is massive GCS bond–and the sales tax hike referendum to pay for it—dead?
The proposed $1.6 billion Guilford County Schools bond–and the proposed sales tax hike referendum to pay for it—were on thin ice anyway in the wake of the coronavirus. But Rhino…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Who Wants to Raise Sales Taxes? And What Will They Do With Your $?
Nearly every election cycle, a handful of counties place a sales tax referendum on the ballot. This primary season, four counties are doing just that: Wayne, Forsyth, Madison, and Chatham.…
Liberty
Mecklenburg County voters reject arts-and-parks sales tax hike
Charlotte Observer reports: Mecklenburg County voters on Tuesday rejected a sales tax increase for the second time in five years, despite a million-dollar campaign and support from prominent community leaders.…
Liberty
Charlotte’s $50 million ‘first step’ toward new light rail line
At Monday’s meeting, the Charlotte City Council will vote on a $50 million contract that would begin preliminary work on a 26-mile light rail line running from Matthews to Belmont.…
Liberty
Mecklenburg commissioner weighs in on proposed sales tax hike
Letter to the editor from Mecklenburg County Commissioner Pat Cotham on the proposed quarter-cent sales tax hike to benefit arts and parks that will be on the ballot next month:…
Education
Mecklenburg County taxpayers asked to approve sales tax “for the children”
A Facebook friend posted a flier that proponents of the proposed Mecklenburg County sales tax increase have sent to residents of the county. …