This issue is yet another obscure licensing turf war— and another indication that North Carolina needs to take bold action against its excessive occupational licensing.
There simply is no “nuclear generation replacement” that could “meet NC’s future baseload electric[ity] needs” without greatly increasing both electricity prices and energy emissions.
Back in August 2020, I reviewed scientific research into the question of “asymptomatic transmission” of Covid-19. The concluding section of my review begins under the header “Your risk from a chance encounter is indistinguishable from zero.” Here is a relevant quotation: There’s nothing scientific about quarantining the healthy or…
A bill before the General Assembly would address what's known as regulatory dark matter. It would make executive agencies bring their unseen rules into the light as rules.
NC has been achieving Cooper's abandoned reopening metrics. Cooper had said his orders were just until we had a vaccine. Now he's saying wait till two-thirds of people are vaccinated. Reports are that probably won't happen, certainly not any time soon.
It's a disturbing act for a president to beat back transparency and restore ruling in the shadows by guidance documents, interpretive statements, memos, and other things never formally introduced as rules.
