Miscellaneous Issues

What Is Your County Doing About Illegal Immigration? A Review Of Local Policies in North Carolina Many local and state officials claim their hands are tied when it comes to ... Keep Reading

The Court System and the Departments of Correction, Crime Control & Public Safety, Justice, and Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Chloe Gossage Senior Policy ... Keep Reading

Max Borders Policy Analyst max.borders@ nccivitas.org 919-834-2099 The recently completed two-year budget cycle (2007-08) was marked by legislation that will make energy more ... Keep Reading

Frustrated with federal inaction, a growing number of states and localities are discovering that, as sovereign entities, they already possess the authority to enforce U.S. ... Keep Reading

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While South Carolina, Arizona, and Oklahoma enacted comprehensive immigration reform during the 2007-08 biennium, the General Assembly passed piecemeal legislation that did little ... Keep Reading

The North Carolina General Assembly was busy in the 2007-2008 biennium. But all that work can get buried in legalese. So the Civitas Institute policy staff has put together a ... Keep Reading

What your Legislature did and didn't do in the 2007-2008 biennial session The North Carolina General Assembly was busy in the 2007-2008 biennium. But all that work can get ... Keep Reading

This article first appeared in the Durham Herald-Sun. Mandatory recycling programs don’t bother most people. But if you thought you were being forced to do something dumb ... Keep Reading

This article was originally published in the News & Observer. Kudos to N.C. Community College System (NCCCS) President Scott Ralls. Faced with the prospect of yet again ... Keep Reading