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The first lawsuit on Senate Bill 382 was filed Thursday evening, just one day after the State House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the bill. This is unlikely…
Billions of taxpayer dollars are expended on hurricane recovery in North Carolina. Disaster responses historically fail to meet victims’ needs and waste significant funds. The federal government should step back and…
My Locke colleague Brian Balfour has noted that Americans voted with their feet in 2021, moving away from higher-tax states to lower-tax states like North Carolina. Check out the chart…
Sarah Westwood of the Washington Examiner highlights other interesting races on the Nov. 2 election ballot. Minneapolis City Question 2 Voters in Minneapolis will decide Tuesday if they want to…
The largest increase in Cooper's proposed state appropriations would be for employee salaries and benefits. Cooper's proposal does not provide price tags for Leandro or Medicaid expansion. Cooper would also…
It’s not just cruise ships. The danger of a catastrophic COVID-19 outbreak is acute at any institution where large numbers of people live or work in close proximity, and that…
Carolina Journal Editor John Trump in his most recent article writes: N.C. lawmakers, one could argue, have had unprecedented success this legislative session in reforming the state’s archaic laws governing…
The Highway Fund and Highway Trust Fund pay the transportation needs of North Carolina. For most of their existence, these funds also transferred money to the General Fund and paid…
Overview For a second straight year, state legislators overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto to enact a state budget. The $23.9 billion General Fund budget for Fiscal Year 2018-19 is 3.85…
In his 1985 address to the North Carolina Foundation for Research and Economic Education (NC FREE), Gov. James Martin laid out three keys to a more conservative view of government.…
A criticism of Republicans at the national level has often been that they want the same thing as Democrats, just less of it. Who expected Senate President Pro Tem Phil…
A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals upheld this morning a lower court’s ruling that politics motivated the firing of a high-profile Democrat who had once served as…