It is a taxing business to bring about fiscal policy reform. However, in the context of an unemployment rate hovering around 10 percent, North Carolina needs to consider how to ... Keep Reading
Resources over Retribution: Criminal Sentencing under Tom Ross
This is part three of a series of articles with insightful commentary into Tom Ross, the next President of the University of North Carolina System. This installment looks at Ross's ... Keep Reading
Ferry Investigation Prompts ‘Sink or Swim’ Moment
In case you were in the camp that believed that $41 million was an obscenely large annual budget to run a Ferry system that takes in around $2.5 million a year, recent ... Keep Reading
Andrew Henson Dukes It Out
Andrew Henson with the Civitas Institute talks about his article on the new UNC System President Thomas Ross and goes toe-to-toe with Rob Schofield of NC Policy Watch on Ross's ... Keep Reading
Ross speedily confirmed as President of UNC System, ACORN ties and all
This is the first of a three part series examining the new president of the University of North Carolina Thomas Ross. Click here for part two. At a hastily convened meeting on ... Keep Reading
SB 1441: Broadband, the New Welfare
The multitude of pricey welfare programs burdening our nation continues to grow, and SB 1441 enables North Carolina to participate in one of the most recent of these federal ... Keep Reading
2010 Legislative Session Summary
What They Did The 2010 North Carolina Legislative Session has come to an abrupt close, leaving behind a mixed bag of new laws and a slew of serious problems that have yet to be ... Keep Reading
Lotto Mixed Messages – H.B. 80
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" Matthew 7:3 Do as I say, not as I do: so sayeth House Bill ... Keep Reading
H.B. 1404: Naturopathic Doctors Face Deadly Dose of Regulation
North Carolina government is growing at an alarming rate, and if HB 1404 has any success, it will only grow faster. House Bill 1404, sponsored by Rep. Dewey Hill (D – ... Keep Reading
S.B. 178 Threatens Right to Work, Would Deepen NC’s Fiscal Crisis
Senate Bill 178 threatens North Carolina’s position as a bastion of virtually union-free public sector labor, as it attempts to do away with the General Statute that ... Keep Reading