Pay and train officers better
While 2017 was a good and productive year for many public and private institutions in North Carolina, it was a tragic year for our prison system. Five staffers were killed by inmates, one during an... Read More
NC SPIN Posts by John Hood
Does Cooper favor a big tax hike?
Does Gov. Roy Cooper believe that North Carolina’s tax burden should be $3 billion higher? It’s a fair question to ask given what Charlie Perusse, the governor’s budget director, said at a... Read More
It's too hard to fly right
Public safety is the first and foremost responsibility of government. North Carolinians want their public officials to do what is required — pass laws, appropriate funds, administer courts and... Read More
Is Christmas gift giving a lose-lose for the economy?
Among the pagan-inspired customs of the Christmas season now appears to be the ritualistic burning of the straw man. Specifically, I refer to the traditional seasonal column by a sly journalist or... Read More
Carolina leader sides with Christmas
Josephus Daniels, one of the most prominent North Carolinians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, played a key role in a story that often circulates around Christmastime. He’s not exactly its... Read More
Tax cuts are not self-financing
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
Revenue trend doesn't merit panic
North Carolina has collected less state revenue so far than projected for the 2017-18 fiscal year, to the tune of about $134 million. Alarm about this would be premature — we’ve learned in recent... Read More
Parties differ on government's scope
Most voters in North Carolina and the rest of America cast ballots reliably for either Democratic or Republican politicians — even if the voters themselves don’t belong to a party. That’s pretty... Read More
Road leads back to public TV
I could always hear John McLaughlin long before I could see him. The larger-than-life former Jesuit priest, Nixon speechwriter, and host of the “McLaughlin Group” public-television show from... Read More
Reform would boost NC incomes
North Carolinians would experience large gains in after-tax income under the tax-reform bill released last week in Washington, according to an initial analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. Its... Read More
