Daily Archives: March 14, 2012

The New Hampshire House has voted to repeal that state’s Certificate of Need Board. Good for them. What’s Certificate of Need, you ask? Well, it’s one of the ripest available health care reforms in North Carolina. JLF Vice President of Research Dr. Roy Cordato studied the system in 2005: In North Carolina and 34 otherContinue Reading

Here is my short list of key and/or interesting congressional primaries to track in North Carolina this year: 7TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Candidates Mike McIntyre, a Democrat first elected in 1996, is the incumbent. He doesn’t face a primary challenger. McIntyre’s name was floated as a possible gubernatorial candidate for Democrats after Gov. Bev Perdue decideContinue Reading

Last week, North Carolina Senator Richard Burr and four of his colleagues in the U.S. Senate sent a letter to Kathleen Sebelius to request that the Department of Health of Human Services (DHHS) release the “Third Grade Follow-Up Study” of Head Start.  Researchers completed data collection in 2008, but DHHS announced that the agency wouldContinue Reading

America’s plunge into a Dark Ages of economic superstition happened at the end of the Bush administration, was  impelled by the incessant chanting of media shamans, and capped with a high priest of Keynesianism so devout he openly wondered why destroying one industry to promote another wasn’t bringing about a net increase in jobs. WeContinue Reading

…you think that the best way to reduce the cost of wind and solar power is to increase subsidies to those industries while at the same time you believe that a solution to the high cost of gasoline is to increase taxes on the oil industry. My guess is that in reality this apparent contradictionContinue Reading

Hans Bader of Competitive Enterprise Institute writes here about the growing accumulation of student loan debt and the increasing default rates. It’s not just that we have a glut of college graduates searching for a relatively small number of jobs; many of those graduates have very little in the way of marketable skill, owing toContinue Reading

The state employees’ association is likely to stay neutral in the Democrats’ gubernatorial primary (Dome) Meanwhile, the N.C. Association of Educators also will remain neutral in the same race (Dome) Two candidates are gaining steam in the 11th Congressional District (Citizen-Times) Anti-marriage amendment protesters will march on the state legislature on Thursday (Dome) Former U.S.Continue Reading