Editorial by Burlington Times-News, July 15, 2015. In addition to completing a budget — which should have already been finished — the N.C. General Assembly is expected to take up a statewide bond... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 16, 2015. In a federal courtroom in Winston-Salem, Republicans are defending their voting law changes as actions necessary to “restore confidence” in... Read More
Last month, in one of its more troubling recent rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court sent the case challenging North Carolina’s “Choose Life” license plates back to the Fourth Circuit Court of... Read More
North Carolina’s historic 2013 tax reform drastically improved our state’s tax climate, making the Tar Heel State far more competitive for job and investment growth. The Tax Foundation credited... Read More
One of the things holding up passage of a state budget for the next two years and the adjournment of the 2015 session of the General Assembly is Medicaid reform. Senate leaders stuffed their version... Read More
Ali Meyer documents for Washington Free Beacon readers the federal government’s record-high tax collection for the 2015 budget year. The federal government collected a record amount of taxes in... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, July 14, 2015. Public trust is essential for any public official to be effective. State Board of Elections member Paul Foley is in danger of losing that trust. It... Read More
Should regulators require child-safety locks on stepladders? Such a rule would have been a real problem at the Hood abode years ago when my boys were little. At the time, there were a couple of... Read More
The General Assembly has returned from its week-long break in the middle of this year's legislative session. Here are four questions that may or may not be answered in the next couple of months as... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, July 14, 2014. North Carolina’s new voting laws are wrong-headed. But are they illegal or unconstitutional? That’s what U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder has... Read More
