Economists have wondered for years what has kept American consumers’ cash in their wallets long after the recession ended. Were consumers, bitten by the recession, twice shy about making major moves such as “trading up” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Have you heard of United Airlines CEO Oscar Muñoz? If you’re like most Americans, if you hadn’t before April 9 you certainly have now.Muñoz’s ham-handed response to the bloody, forcible removal of a passenger was […]
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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