Regulation
Government regulations typically restrict people’s behaviors and choices– causing economic damage, especially to society’s vulnerable who can least afford to comply. Locke works to deregulate and support innovation and growth.
What “County Clusters” Mean for North Carolina’s Redistricting Process
North Carolina’s unique county clustering process is a way of balancing constitutional requirements of keeping counties whole and having equal populations of legislative districts. The county clustering process is simple…
National Recognition in Forbes for N.C. CON Reforms
Patrick Gleason of Americans for Tax Reform highlights in a Forbes column North Carolina’s successful effort to loosen certificate-of-need restrictions. As Texas demonstrated this past summer, the national media loves…
Unions Should Focus on Workers, Not Congress
Sean Higgins argues at National Review Online that labor unions should shift gears to ensure their survival. The U.S. labor movement is facing a crisis of dwindling membership and hitching…
What Are School Mask Mandates Doing to Children?
Nearly every public school district in North Carolina is forcing face masks on students. Researchers are sounding the alarm about the psychological, physical, social, developmental, and academic harms of masks…
Locke’d and Loaded: A Perpetual State of Emergency
North Carolina has been under a state of emergency for nearly a third of Roy Cooper’s tenure. Is this a successful governorship? Amy O. Cooke, “The Right AOC,” has some…
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Carolina Journal Online reports on the upcoming 75th anniversary of North Carolina’s right-to-work law. John Hood’s CJ Opinion urges policymakers to pursue occupational licensing reform.
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Donna King reports for Carolina Journal Online on Gov. Roy Cooper and Winston-Salem officials addressing mental health and gun issues after a shooting at a high school. Charles Fain Lehman’s…
New Carolina Journal Online Features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online on lawmakers sending a school anti-indoctrination bill to Gov. Roy Cooper. John Trump’s CJ Opinion highlights a distiller who’s interested in nurturing communities.…
Expand Our Freedoms to Imbibe
This morning the North Carolina Senate Committee on Commerce and Insurance will hear a bill that would expand some freedoms for the otherwise shackled, state-run, and happy hour-less, liquor industry.…
Partisan Interest Group Seeks to Dominate Redistricting Process
Democrats and progressive groups successful and "surreptitiously" injected their supporters into the redistricting process to influence the redistricting to favor Democrats in California. All On The Line, an organization affiliated…
INBOX: Sen. Chuck Edwards Responds To Cooper’s Veto of Bill To Repeal Pistol Purchase Permit
Landing in my inbox Monday afternoon, sent by Senate Leader Phil Berger’s office. Statement on Gov. Cooper’s Veto of Bill to Repeal Pistol Purchase Permit Pistol permit created by…
The U-Hauls Are Coming
Those of us who live here know very well what a wonderful state North Carolina is to call home, and if you’ve subscribed to On Locke, our weekly Monday morning…