Donna Martinez

Friday’s NC First Commission panel featured JLF Senior Fellow Joe Coletti in a discussion of transportation funding and tax policy. That’s Joe in the upper right corner of the screen in the tweet below. Triangle Business Journal reported on the discussion (subscription required). Here’s part of the story’s…

And that’s not the whole story of North Carolina’s energy progress, thanks to market forces. But it’s not just that North Carolina is seeing lower energy-based emissions. We’re doing this while continuing to be one of the nation’s fastest-growth states in terms of population.

The group Classical Liberals in the Carolinas named the John Locke Foundation’s Mitch Kokai to its board of directors on August 9. CLC made the announcement in Winston-Salem during a meeting connected with the group’s annual conference. The three-day conference’s theme was “The Future of Jobs: Obstacles and Opportunities in…

John Locke Foundation experts offered perspective at the August gathering of Classical Liberals in the Carolinas (CLC). The group met in Winston-Salem for a three-day conference’s themed “The Future of Jobs: Obstacles and Opportunities in the Carolinas.” A panel discussion on occupational licensing featured three JLF researcher/analysts. Pictured left to…

Do you know what’s in the North Carolina state budget Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed? JLF’s Becki Gray takes a look and finds lots of reasons to celebrate. She’s calling it North Carolina’s Freedom Budget. Here are 3 of the 17 reasons. By restraining spending growth to…

JLF Legal Fellow writes in the Coastland Times about North Carolina’s outdated and messy criminal code. Some in the General Assembly want to clean it up and make it more clear and more fair. Thanks to the 2018 Recodification Working Group bill, we have much of the information we…

Update Your Contacts With Our New Office Address As of June 10, the John Locke Foundation has moved to midtown Raleigh near North Hills. We are now located at 4800 Six Forks Road, #220, Raleigh, NC 27609. Our phone number (919-828-3876) and staff email addresses…

The Hill reports on President Trump’s approval rating, as measured by the Harvard/Harris poll: President Trump’s job approval rating is the highest it’s been in two years, boosted by voter optimism about the economy, according to the latest Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey. The survey found that 48 percent approve…