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.
Health Care
Complications in CON Lawsuit
Dr. Gajendra Singh, a Winston-Salem surgeon, is suing the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) over its Certificate of Need (CON) law related to MRI machines. CON laws…
Research Brief
Health Care
More Twists and Turns in the CON Law Case
As regular readers probably know, in July of 2018, a Winston-Salem surgeon named Gajendra Singh filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of North Carolina’s Certificate of Need (CON) law. In…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Scrapping the pro-union ‘joint employer’ rule
Sean Higgins of the Washington Examiner highlights a Trump administration change that will disappoint labor union leaders. The White House has formally rolled back one of the Obama administration’s most…
Energy
Clearing out an Obama-era EPA backlog
Yuichiro Kakutani of the Washington Free Beacon reports on one element of a changing administration at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Environmental Protection Agency has reduced a backlog of…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online that a legal setback isn’t stopping a legal challenge against North Carolina’s certificate-of-need restrictions. The Daily Journal explains how a recent N.C. Court…
Regulation
“It’s Always Something” In The Alcohol Industry
This week, Carolina Journal’s John Trump wrote an opinion piece on the challenges the alcohol industry frequently faces. Just this past year, Trump explains, distilleries were faced with a potential…
Education
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
It’s hard to have a good debate about public education in North Carolina when people rely on false information about teacher pay and the impact of school choice on public…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on possible consequences of one rural N.C. county’s increased access to medical equipment. Jordan Roberts’ Daily Journal reviews health policy at the N.C.…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
“The truly progressive position is to say people have a right to camp out and sleep in front of a store but not buy a bag of pretzels there.”
That’s Walter Olson’s take on the left’s current campaign to shut down dollar stores. For a full discussion of this latest piece of progressive lunacy, see Unjust Deserts by Steven Malanga:…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on a clash between the state superintendent of public instruction and the State Board of Education over school reading policies. John Trump’s Daily…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Corporate Welfare Creates Headlines, Not Jobs as Promised
WRAL reporter Tyler Dukes has examined job creation promises from North Carolina economic-development incentives programs and found them falling far, far short. Dukes assessed job creation from projects under the…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Time To Say Goodbye To Raleigh’s Free Downtown Bus Service?
Some things last, and some things don’t. Beyonce’s 2008 single “Single Ladies” is an enduring song. “Shut Up and Let Me Go” by The Ting Tings is not. Raleigh continues…