Stick with the winning playbook
Gov. Pat McCrory and some Republican lawmakers in the General Assembly say they need more “tools” for economic development in North Carolina — by which they mean targeted tax breaks and... Read More
NC SPIN Posts by John Hood
Reforms grounded in history
When I’m not reading public-policy tomes for work or escapist science fiction for play, any book you’ll find in my hands will probably be a work of history. To study history is not to dwell in the... Read More
Necessary restructuring
Critics of the Republican-led General Assembly allege that the teacher-pay raise included in this year’s state budget could have been implemented in a much simpler fashion: by giving across-the... Read More
Newspaper market still diverse
Is the market for news and information in North Carolina overly concentrated in a few hands? In recent years, I’ve heard complaints from both the Left and the Right about the effects of media... Read More
Extending the benefits debate
Justin Wolfers, a University of Michigan economist and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote a piece for The New York Times a couple of weeks ago that was partly a response to a previous... Read More
Pay reform meets student needs
Critics of the Republican-led General Assembly allege that the teacher-pay raise included in this year’s state budget could have been implemented in a much simpler fashion: by giving across-the... Read More
Play it safe
We don’t know what the composition of the North Carolina General Assembly will look like after the November election. Republicans are favored to hold their majorities in both legislative chambers... Read More
Tanks for nothing
Early next year, the John Locke Foundation will be celebrating our 25th anniversary. I’ve been with the organization since it opened its doors — earlier than that, actually, as I helped draft its... Read More
Giving credit for grants
The question of whether government ought to subsidize historic preservation or Hollywood filmmaking is distinguishable from the question of how government ought to go about delivering those subsidies... Read More
Time to rebuild state reserves
We don’t know what the composition of the North Carolina General Assembly will look like after the November election. Republicans are favored to hold their majorities in both legislative chambers... Read More
