Budget, Taxation & Economy
At the state legislature, Locke advocates for limiting the expenditure of tax dollars and strictly limiting its tax burdens on families and businesses.
The Leandro long game: How the Left has weaponized a 27-year-old court case
The new Comprehensive Remedial Plan to comply with the Leandro ruling lacks critical details for how its measures would provide all public school children a sound basic education. Democrats and…
Greenville bar owner’s lawsuit against Gov. Cooper moves forward
Greenville bar owner Crystal Waldron continues her fight against Gov. Roy Cooper’s use of emergency powers, which prevented her from earning a living and fully operating her business. Carolina Journal…
Amazon’s poor track record explored
Jordan Davidson writes for the Federalist about inconvenient facts for an e-commerce giant. Amazon, the most powerful e-commerce company in the world, has a weak history of trying to correct…
Here’s a question for lockdown proponents
Jeffrey A. Tucker asks, "Why Is Everyone in Texas Not Dying?" He recites a Chicken Litany of hysterical predictions from politicians and pundits about impending disaster for Texas, all of…
WUNC’s podcast: Becki Gray on Cooper’s budget, election integrity, gun control
Making her weekly appearance on WUNC’s “The Politics Podcast” hosted by Jeff Tiberii, Locke’s Becki Gray offers sound perspective on Gov. Roy Cooper’s behemoth budget proposal, a spending plan that…
New Carolina Journal Online features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online on the State Board of Education’s vote to permit 3-foot social distancing in public school students’ return to classrooms. John Hood’s CJ Opinion…
In NC, “thirty days…to slow the spread” turns a year old
March 27, 2020, saw this from Gov. Roy Cooper: Governor Roy Cooper ordered people in the state of North Carolina to stay at home for thirty days, until April 29,…
LISTEN: Cooper & Stein on immigration and the ‘dreamers’
For weeks now, the focus has rightly been on the crisis at the southern border, as illegal immigrants flood into the United States and the Biden administration flails. But on…
When CEOs propose regulations, results are often bad
Editors at the Washington Examiner explain why voters and consumers should beware of corporate CEOs who propose new government regulations. We’ve seen this play before. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants…
New Carolina Journal Online features
John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online on a bill to increase property owners’ protections against eminent domain abuse. Gregg Thompson’s CJ Opinion explains why broadband access is a necessity…
Why we’re very close to herd immunity
Natural immunity after Covid-19 infection is likely lifelong, extrapolating from data on other coronaviruses that cause severe illness, SARS and MERS,” says Monica Gandhi, an infectious-disease physician and professor at…
4 Big, Bad Ideas In Gov. Cooper’s Massive Spending Plan
It’s a massive spending plan. On Wednesday, Gov. Roy Cooper announced his new state budget proposal, a plan that would spend far too much money, setting North Carolina’s state government…