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A bipartisan bill to address PFAS pollution would require polluters like Chemours to reimburse public water systems for cleanup, abatement, and technology needs. Debate over the bill includes concerns it…
This week, Meredith Criner, who served as a research intern at the John Locke Foundation this summer, published an opinion piece on drug-recovery courts in the Wilmington Star News. Criner…
Back on June 26th, the Wilmington Star News published a letter to the editor written by myself which was a response to an editorial by the newspaper which called on…
JLF’s Joe Coletti recently commented on Medicaid Expansion for Governing magazine. Coletti comments that one reason many legislators hesitate to expand Medicaid in North Carolina is due to the upcoming…
JLF Health Care Policy Analyst Jordan Roberts has offered perspective via a letter to the editor in the Wilmington Star-News. In the letter, which responded to a Star-News editorial that…
Introduction: A tale of two enterprising Tar Heels Bob has a bumper crop of North Carolina sweet potatoes. How can he get them to a consumer? Bob’s got a lot…
As Netflix and Hollywood activists try to dictate their social agenda to NC policymakers, they try to restore the only film incentives program that's worse than the current film production…
Background Did you know that North Carolina used to be the nation’s leader in locally owned and operated distilleries? It’s true. In 1904 the state had 745 registered distilleries, 540…
Executive Summary In 2017, North Carolinians were alerted to the discharge of a relatively new, unregulated chemical compound called “GenX” as well as other, similar compounds in the Cape Fear…
According to a recent report at Star News Online, the department will remain on leave while investigations of misconduct by two if its officers continue: Lt. Michael Christian Simmons, 48, appeared…
According to the StarNews, Wilmington Police Chief Ralph Evangelous shared the following good news with the City Council on Tuesday: [C]rime within city limits [fell] from 5,385 in 2016 to…
There’s a new bridge under construction to connect Topsail Island to the mainland. The new bridge will replace an old one, the iconic Surf City swing bridge, so the question…