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.
Baby Boomers Indicted
In a previous blogpost, I cited Economist Lyman Stone’s American Enterprise Institute paper, Red, White, and Gray. In a summary published today at the Atlantic, Stone draws some harsh conclusions…
CJ Reports: Raleigh attorneys offer quality legal services to poor from RV
Seventy percent of North Carolina households have civil legal needs, and according to a recent story in Carolina Journal by reporter Leonard Robinson III, 80 percent of the civil legal…
CJ Reports: Senate legislation would make it easier to sue Big Tech over political bias
According to a recent article in Carolina Journal by Lindsay Marchello, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, has introduced legislation that would make it easier for consumers to sue big tech…
JLF’s Donald van der Vaart Comments to Southern Farm Network on Controversial NC Livestock Regulations
Thursday, June 20, JLF Senior Fellow and former Secretary for the N. C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Dr. Donald van der Vaart was featured on Southern Farm Network’s website…
Let North Carolinians Get to Work!
Getting an occupational license can be time-consuming and expensive. For instance, becoming a barber in North Carolina takes approximately 722 days (comprised of 1,528 hours of schooling, one year of…
Kokai Comments on Beer and Wine at UNC System Sporting Events
This week, Winston-Salem Journal reported on the current bipartisan measure to allow for beer and alcohol sales at state university sporting events. The article reports the legislation, House Bill 389,…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
A merger between Aetna and CVS could expand retail health care options in North Carolina and across the country. Meanwhile, a tool called Medibid is helping to connect doctors and…
CJ Reports: Senate Judiciary Committee welcomes Freedom to Work bill
This past Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary committee approved House Bill 770, reports Lindsay Marchello in Carolina Journal. HB 770 is a bill that would make it easier for the citizens…
CJ Reports: Distillery reform ‘game-changer’ passes key Senate committee
North Carolina-based distillers could see some helpful changes coming their way according to an article by Carolina Journal’s John Trump. In his article, Trump speaks to state distillers about what…
Highlights of the ‘Freedom to Work’ bill
Being able to petition the board “at any time” is a particularly strong reform. For people whose conviction record would disqualify them from the license no matter what, being able…
Don’t Automatically Deny Occupational Licenses to People With Conviction Records
An occupational license is a special kind of government regulation known as an entry regulation. The state forbids a would-be worker from entering his chosen field of work until he…
New Carolina Journal Online features
John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online on a key N.C. Senate committee’s approval of a bill to relax restrictions on craft distillers. Mike Schietzelt’s Daily Journal explains benefits of…