John Locke Updates: 2015

View in your browser. A couple of weeks ago I discussed an excellent NC Court of Appeals decision in which the Court held…

View in your browser. How much does North Carolina’s government spend?  A simple question, but unfortunately there’s not a simple answer.  North Carolina’s budget…

The release of Gov. Pat McCrory’s latest two-year state budget plan prompted media outlets to seek analysis from John Locke Foundation experts. The Winston-Salem Journal quoted Director of Fiscal Policy…

A Greensboro News & Record editorial took note of a letter from Democratic U.S. senators seeking a decade’s worth of financial information from the John Locke Foundation in connection with…

View in your browser. After keeping up on the post hoc commentary and reading through the transcript, it looks as if last week’s Supreme…

View in your browser. North Carolina has one of the most aggressive Certificate of Need (CON) programs in the nation. A bipartisan bill introduced this week in…

View in your browser. 1. Three cheers for Koch Industries: they are not knuckling under The AP is reporting that, like…

View in your browser. During the progressive era, federal antitrust enforcement agencies were known as "trustbusters." They were usually depicted as righteous warriors courageously fighting…

View in your browser. Last week Gov. Pat McCrory released his budget proposal for the 2015-2017 biennium, his spending plan for $22 billion in each of the…

Viewers of Time Warner Cable News’ statewide “Capital Tonight” program heard this week from Rick Henderson, who discussed the controversy surrounding the University of North Carolina Board of Governors’ decision…