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
The most shameful thing about the disastrous budget passed by the Senate two weeks ago is not the vindictive 3:00 a.m. budget cuts to education programs in Democrats’ districts. It’s not the... Read More
I have been writing a regular column on North Carolina politics and public policy since 1986. Over three decades of writing about and talking to politicians in Raleigh, few issues have come up more... Read More
by Jon Sanders, John Locke Foundation, May 25, 2017. For half a century, making any reform to a state’s occupational licensing system has been nigh on impossible. How hard? In 2015, the federal... Read More
House members on Thursday began reviewing pieces of the chamber's proposed 2017-18 budget, but legislative leaders said details about raises for teachers and state employees won't be released until... Read More
This is a tough time for our country, but we can count on our strong national institutions to carry us through them. If we protect those institutions. President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, May 25, 2017. We knew a holiday weekend was coming when a couple of local gas stations bumped up their prices by 10 to 15 cents a gallon. They’re ready to make... Read More
Editorial by The Winston-Salem Journal, May 23, 2017. Here we go again. The U.S. Supreme Court rightly ruled Monday that North Carolina lawmakers relied too heavily on race when drawing two... Read More
In image-conscious North Carolina, sometimes it takes an embarrassment to get the state in gear. Consider, for example, what happened in 1989 when North Carolina learned it ranked as the state with... Read More
