John Locke Updates: 2007

A report released by Environment North Carolina and the Natural Resource Defense Council had JLF Research Director, Roy Cordato steaming. The report, which adumbrated that the frequency of unhealthy smog…

According to a recent audit of Wake County’s curriculum, only one of 363 teachers is doing a poor job.  That one teacher must be doing a pretty bad job. It’s…

Following the refusal to publish a minority report as an addendum to a recently released Wake County Citizens’ Facilities Advisory Committee final report on school construction, education policy analyst and…

In front of a crowd of students enrolled in the Masters of Public Administration class at NC Central, Becki Gray relayed her experience with public policy. At a meeting with…

Paul Chesser and Chad Adams attended a leadership forum in Chicago hosted by the Sam Adams Alliance, which brought together leaders from free-market think tanks and grassroots organizations from…

Writing for Townhall.com, Pat Buchanan thinks that free trade has destroyed the middle class in America. Instead of celebrating low-priced goods and lamenting the high cost of American goods,…

When Environment North Carolina released a report claiming that North Carolina is getting warmer, and that this warming trend will only continue, thanks to global warming, JLF Research Director,…

Following the legislature’s move to absorb the local cost of Medicaid and then give localities the option of either increasing their sales tax or add a land-transfer fee, Chad Adams…

Just in time to accompany kids to school, SAT statistics were released nationally.  The trend was downward, even within our state. Lindalyn Kakadelis spoke with Lockwood Phillips about the…

A commonality between the two is that they’re both state-sanctioned monopolies. Monopolies create price disequilibrium, generally to the disdain of consumers. For those interested in spirits, a trip to the…