Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
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.
Regulation
New Carolina Journal Online Features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online on the N.C. House vote urging a better evacuation of Americans in Afghanistan. Ray Nothstine’s Daily Journal explains why a likely veto of…
Research Brief
Regulation
An Explainer for Redistricting Criteria, Part 3: “Mays” and “Shall Nots”
Political and racial data are appropriately banned from consideration when legislators draw district maps. Preventing "double bunking" of incumbents can prevent map drawers from following redistricting best practices such as…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online Features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online on a Senate committee’s vote to approve a bill banning indoctrination in public schools. John Hood’s CJ Opinion explains why certificate-of-need laws are…
Research Brief
Regulation
An Explainer for Redistricting Criteria, Part 2: Geography
Congressional districts must be equal in population, but legislators have some flexibility regarding population equality when drawing state legislative districts. Districts must be contiguous, and the rules are precise about…
Research Brief
Regulation
An Explainer for Redistricting Criteria, Part 1: Political Boundaries
North Carolina's constitution and related court cases severely limit how counties can be divided when forming state legislative districts. Precincts sometimes must be split when forming districts but doing so…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Government Causes Harm When Excluding For-Profit Companies from Contracts
Marc Joffe writes for National Review Online about one misguided approach to public policy involving for-profit companies. Policymakers and activists often condemn government contracts with for-profit providers, arguing that the…
Research Brief
Regulation
Left-Leaning Advocacy Group Still Operating in N.C. Despite Three Years of Noncompliance
North Carolina has strict laws dictating how charities and nonprofits can solicit funds. In order for a charity or nonprofit to raise money in North Carolina, it must file and…
Law & Public Safety
Mark Your Calendars!
If you’re interested in the Second Amendment, that is. Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will hear oral arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v.…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The House Budget Had Good Ideas for Opticians, and the Final Budget Can, Too
An earlier version of the House budget would have relaxed some of the restrictions North Carolina places on its licensed opticians. Those reforms would have followed some of the John…
Energy
Alaska Governor Blasts Biden for Harming Poor
Tristan Justice of the Federalist highlights a critique of President Biden from the nation’s northernmost state. Gov. Mike Dunleavy is frustrated. In just its first eight months, the Biden administration…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Donna King writes for Carolina Journal Online about N.C. bills that would remove barriers to entry for cosmetology jobs. A CJ Opinion article urges N.C. policymakers not to manufacture a…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online Features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online on school choice helping a retired soldier’s autistic daughter. Ray Nothstine’s CJ Opinion explains why court decisions should prompt N.C. legislative action on…