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.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Could North Carolina be the next state to legalize sports gambling?
North Carolina may consider a sports betting bill in 2021. Senate Bill 688, a bipartisan Senate proposal, would legalize and regulate online and in-person gambling. After a 2018 Supreme Court case…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Progressive Recommendations Would Harm, Not Help, Hourly Workers
A new report published by a left-wing group included policy recommendations they claim will help hourly workers. The recommendations, however, largely introduce more restrictions, costs, and burdens to hiring hourly…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Dallas Woodhouse reports for Carolina Journal Online about a potential overhaul of N.C. high school sports. Carter Reilly’s CJ Opinion argues that Americans are losing a cyberwar.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Housing Must Keep Up With Job Growth
The future belongs to the cities that can keep affordable housing growth properly matched to job growth. And that’s proving too difficult for some city governments, especially in states with…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Johnny Kampis reports for Carolina Journal Online on North Carolina’s work to boost broadband access. The CJ Opinion highlights a state health care policy that promotes bullying and scare tactics…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
How an Overzealous Licensing Board’s Threat Shows the Need for Structural Licensing Reform
The state licensing board for massage and bodywork said reflexologists didn't practice massage and bodywork — then they changed their mind. House Bill 434 would ward off this licensing threat…
Research Brief
Education
To mask, or not to mask, that is the question
North Carolina is one of only ten states that continue to schoolchildren to all be masked. Elected officials want mask policies to be in the hands of local communities and…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Avoiding the Left’s ‘Antitrust Trap’
Robert Bork Jr. offers National Review Online readers a warning about rewriting federal antitrust law. When Daniel Oliver, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under Ronald Reagan, comes out…
Law & Public Safety
“We refuse to relegate either the Second Amendment or 18- to 20-year-olds to a second-class status.”
That’s just one of many eloquent lines from today’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit holding that a federal law that forbids gun dealers from selling…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Operation Warp Speed, Industrial Policy, and the Truth
Scott Lincicome writes at National Review Online to dispel myths involving Operation Warp Speed. As President Biden picks up the “industrial policy” baton from Donald Trump, it has become accepted…
Health Care
Certificate of Need: A Bad Law Leads to Bad Behavior
People with a medical need for mobile PET scanners are harmed while health care companies wage high-stakes battles in state courts over state agency decisions regarding a law that 15…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
“Need”? Health Consumers Don’t Need So Much Time Wasted, Money Spent on CON Shenanigans
In 2018, the state Division of Health Service Regulation determined that the people of North Carolina "needed" one — and only one — new mobile PET scanner. Three years and…