Agriculture
Freedom to drink raw milk? Only if the state approves
A raw milk ban seems to have been averted in North Carolina, but consumer access is still under fire. On Tuesday, May 6, North Carolina lawmakers backed away from a…
Steve Troxler
Research Brief
Agriculture
To Save North Carolina’s Endangered Farmland, Stop Overbuilding Solar Facilities
A recent report placed North Carolina second in the nation for threatened farmland from residential development. Meanwhile, the amount of new solar facilities sought by Duke Energy could endanger as…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Why EMA reform is so urgent: Cooper’s abuse of emergency powers is a year old
On March 17, 2020, Gov. Cooper used emergency powers to shut down restaurants and bars to in-person eating and drinking, and he did so without concurrence from the Council of…
Agriculture
NC State Fair will Return in 2021
North Carolina’s largest agriculture celebration, the N.C. State Fair was canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus. Thankfully for fans of the popular event, State Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler announced…
Agriculture
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
The COVID-19 pandemic already has injected an unexpected element into North Carolina’s 2020 elections. Now the looting and riots linked to recent protests in the Tar Heel State could affect…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
N.C. legislators have loosed restrictions on the state’s targeted tax incentive program for economic development. Jon Sanders explains why that’s a bad idea during the next edition of Carolina Journal…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way of Carolina Journal Online interviews N.C. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler about tariffs and the state of farming. John Trump’s Daily Journal argues that North Carolina’s system governing alcoholic…
Regulation
CJ Commentary: Big Almond and Big Coconut aren’t pulling the wool over your eyes
Is it milk or is it something else? And do consumers realize that milk is milk, and other stuff doesn’t come from an animal? That’s the nut of the debate…
Liberty
Random post-election thoughts, questions and musings
Wow. Just wow. I spent last night watching, commenting, wondering, and asking really? And a good part of today, making notes and generally thinking through what does all this mean.…
Liberty
Winston-Salem Journal endorsements…..
The Winston-Salem Journal makes its council of state endorsements in today’s edition: The Journal editorial board endorses Dale Folwell for treasurer, June Atkinson for superintendent of public instruction, Josh Stein…
Liberty
Ag commissioner dissing Project Haystack
Rhino’s Scott Yost reports N.C. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler is coming home to Guilford County —-specifically to diss the proposed Project Haystack—- the proposed data center park on the prison…
Liberty
Re: Dix Hill land deal
At least that’s what my mother called the Dorthea Dix mental hospital when I was growing up in Raleigh. On more than a few occasions she threatened to send me…