Drew Elliot

ELLIOT: Shale oil and geopolitics

May 24, 2017 Drew Elliot

There may be no greater testament to the dramatic scale of the shale-energy revolution than projects such as the Jordan Cove terminal and pipeline. Jordan Cove, in Oregon, has been in the news recently after […]

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ELLIOT: Do Berger, Cooper share priorities?

May 17, 2017 Drew Elliot

State Senate leader Phil Berger spoke to reporters May 9 about the Senate’s budget plan, which then passed the upper chamber May 12. In the press conference, Berger spoke at several different points to what […]

ELLIOT: Copeland in dreamland

May 10, 2017 Drew Elliot

North Carolina, as you may have heard, has won the 2017 Prosperity Cup, an award for economic competitiveness based on objective data compiled annually by Site Selection magazine. The Tarheel State is on a three-year […]

ELLIOT: Raise the age now, but pause on Marsys law

May 3, 2017 Drew Elliot

Depending on the controlling perception of public safety at any one time, legislators ping-pong between wanting to be seen as “tough on crime” and “modernizing the criminal justice system.” The crime waves of the 1980s […]

ELLIOT: Cooper whiffs big with appeals court choice

April 26, 2017 Drew Elliot

Since his middle-of-the-night swearing in on Jan. 1, Gov. Roy Cooper has told North Carolinians that he is too respectful of the judiciary to play partisan games with it. Thus he opposed the Republican effort […]

ELLIOT: Different stimulus, same response

April 22, 2017 Drew Elliot

They say the definition of insanity is repeating the same action and expecting a different result. A corollary would be that offering the same response to different stimuli is just as flawed. The left’s response […]

ELLIOT: Reality limits foreign policy options, but signals matter

April 19, 2017 Drew Elliot

There is an old story about a Georgian running for Congress in the 1870s. When he finished making his stump speech, a woman in the crowd asked “Why should we vote for you? You told […]

ELLIOT: Planes, trains, and re-accommodations

April 15, 2017 Drew Elliot

Have you heard of United Airlines CEO Oscar MuÃ±oz? If you’re like most Americans, if you hadn’t before April 9 you certainly have now.MuÃ±oz’s ham-handed response to the bloody, forcible removal of a passenger was […]

ELLIOT: NCs environment chief has experience, but will politics prevail?

April 12, 2017 Drew Elliot

Just one block of Jones Street separates North Carolina’s Legislative Building from the headquarters of the state’s environmental agency, but sometimes it has seemed like the widest chasm in the state.That wasn’t the case last […]

ELLIOT: NC Senate tax plan a boon for families

April 8, 2017 Drew Elliot

On Tuesday, the North Carolina Senate passed another tax reform package. To tout the accomplishment, staffers in Senate leader Phil Berger’s office sent a news release to media with the headline “Senate Passes Billion Dollar […]

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