Certificate-of-Need laws limit competition, boosting taxpayer and patient expense Taxpayers and patients unnecessarily pay hundreds of millions of dollars in medical costs because of arcane... Read More
Ediorial by Wilmington Star-News, March 24, 2014. State lawmakers who have embraced deregulation nevertheless seem awfully fond of imposing new rules on local governments. If they're not careful, the... Read More
Should there be stricter laws and regulations to protect the environment? In 1992, according to the Pew Research Center, 93 percent of Democrats and 86 percent of Republicans said yes. Twenty years... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, March 24, 2014. Really? The Common Core State Standards for public schools will lead children and the nation toward communism? The standards promote abortion and... Read More
Does our Constitution guarantee the freedom of religion or does it merely allow a more limited freedom to worship? The difference is profound. Worship is an event. Religion is a way of life... Read More
Newspapers, activists and all who care about open government recently celebrated “Sunshine Week.” Now it’s time for North Carolina conservatives to make 2014 Sunshine Year. People across the... Read More
Whether or not you believe teacher tenure laws in North Carolina need reform, it has become apparent that the changes passed by state legislators last year included a fatal flaw. They required the... Read More
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, March 16, 2014. It has taken too long and too many questionable developments have occurred, but we are grateful that finally the state Department of Environment and... Read More
by John Frank, Under the Dome, March 21, 2014. A new poll shows Republican Thom Tillis with his biggest lead so far in the U.S. Senate race. Tillis took 28 percent in a SurveyUSA poll of Republican... Read More
The state department of Health and Human Services overpaid Medicaid health care providers and set up a food stamp approval system that allows county workers to override benefit time limits. The... Read More
