Jon Sanders, Author at The Locker Room

Jon Sanders studies regulatory policy, a veritable kudzu of invasive government and unintended consequences. As director of regulatory studies at the John Locke Foundation, Jon gets into the weeds in all kinds of policy areas, including electricity, occupational licensing, hydraulic fracturing, the minimum wage, poverty and opportunity, state rulemaking, film and other incentives programs, certificates of need, and cronyism.

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What did FDR do that led to celebrating ‘Republican Thanksgiving’ in NC?

In 1939, to satisfy retail merchants worried about a shorter Christmas shopping season, FDR proclaimed that Thanksgiving that year would fall on November 23rd, not the expected November 30th.

Jon Sanders, November 24, 2021
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending November 22

Image source: Gov. Roy Cooper’s Twitter feed a year ago today, as he tightened his unscientific and demonstrably ineffective face mask order against people deliberately just before Thanksgiving. Having already canceled Easter, Independence Day, and attending college football games, the governor actually wanted to force people to…

Jon Sanders, November 23, 2021
Is DHHS about to change the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’?

Imagine a scenario where people's jobs, education, travel, grocery buying, access to government services, etc. are threatened every six months if they don't get another booster.

Jon Sanders, November 23, 2021
‘Bureaucracy is the very essence of the State’

"We all have our stories of bureaucratic indifference; and now during Covid, indifference has become cruel."

Jon Sanders, November 22, 2021
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending November 15

This past week about 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and about eight out of nine (88.6%) adult North Carolinians are estimated to have either vaccine-induced or natural immunity.

Jon Sanders, November 17, 2021
Who Is Contracting Covid-19 in NC? Post-Vaccinated, Reinfected, and the Not Fully Vaccinated

While there were about 2.7 times more Covid-19 cases to unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated individuals than there were to fully vaccinated individuals, there were about 14.3 times more cases to vaccinated individuals than to people with prior infection.

Jon Sanders, November 10, 2021
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending November 8

This past week about 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and nearly nine out of ten (89.4%) adult North Carolinians are estimated to have either vaccine-induced or natural immunity.

Jon Sanders, November 9, 2021
Film’s banner year shows that North Carolina, not its film grants, is the star

I used to break down articles' listing of "North Carolina films" with whether they received incentives. Almost all of the films listed would be before incentives. What about WRAL's new piece?

Jon Sanders, November 5, 2021

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Jon Sanders

Research Editor and Senior Fellow, Regulatory Studies

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