Editor’s note: This morning, in the case of Dickson v. Rucho, the United States Supreme Court ordered the North Carolina Supreme Court to once again review a challenge to the state’s legislative... Read More
When Charles Kurzman received a letter last month announcing an audit of the State Employee Health plan, it didn’t much worry him. A similar audit had been done back in 2010 and Kurzman, a professor... Read More
Everyone seems to be talking taxes these days. President Trump recently released his proposed tax changes, while here in North Carolina the Senate’s “Billion Dollar Middle-Class Tax Cut” plan... Read More
by Paul O'Connor, The Insider, published in Asheville Citizen-Times, May 31, 2017. Imagine you’re running a match-play golf tournament. Your team will face another for a big cash prize, and you... Read More
by Jim Tynen, Civitas Institute, June 1, 2017. Are some state legislators trying bypass a law meant to keep transportation spending under control? Yesterday a Senate committee approved House Bill... Read More
by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, May 26, 2017. My wife and I have one foot in rural regions and the other in big cities. We were both born and raised in small towns – I in an... Read More
Editorial by Wilson Daily Times, May 25, 2017. Some state legislators want to turn away federal funds that provide free meals for Wilson County schoolchildren. The N.C. Senate’s spending plan would... Read More
A CBC Editorial: Wednesday, May 31, 2017; Editorial # 8167 The following is the opinion of Capitol Broadcasting Company Leaders of North Carolina’s General Assembly can’t silence the truth by... Read More
North Carolina Republicans has gotten right what Republicans elsewhere have gotten very wrong: how to construct sensible tax cuts and honest, conservative budgets. Liberal critics aren’t inclined to... Read More
Since the Senate passed its disastrous budget, bad reviews keep rolling in about the choices Senate leaders made and the process they used to make them. Sen. Phil Berger and his staff are still busy... Read More
