State lawmakers had a rare moment of bipartisan unity recently. Everyone, it seemed, was outraged about a state-funded healthcare agency that was paying its CEO a $635,000 salary. Until the overpaid... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, December 14, 2017. Local school boards are having to clean up after the General Assembly’s mess -- and it won’t be pretty. In 2016 and again this summer... Read More
by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, December 10, 2017. There’s an old saying stating, “no good deed goes unpunished.” I was reminded of it during a recent radio call-in program... Read More
Editor’s note: This Daily Journal by John Locke Foundation Chairman John Hood originally ran here May 30, 2017. We are running it again in response to a story,”What happened when North Carolina... Read More
It’s the holidays. Time for good cheer, glad tidings and songs of the season. Good will to all, peace and joy. But in North Carolina, a Grinch hides around every corner. He steals opportunity and... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 5, 2017. There could be one N.C. Supreme Court seat on the 2018 ballot. Or seven. Or none. This uncertainty only 11 months before the election is... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, December 7, 2017. North Carolina is thinking about expanding its lottery to include more games played on the internet. Players can already buy tickets for the big... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 3, 2017. Sen. Thom Tillis has co-sponsored a bipartisan bill that introduces reasonable gun-control to address situations like November’s Texas church... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 4, 2017. Almost $4 million, the amount going in severance packages to four executives of Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions, could go a long way... Read More
Editorial by Capitol Broadcasting Company, December 6, 2017. Republican leaders in the General Assembly are upset at the prospect that a court-ordered plan to fix their unconstitutional gerrymandered... Read More
