Jon Sanders

License denials in Pennsylvania for lack of "good moral character" bring to mind the 641 different disqualifications from licensing in North Carolina for having a conviction record.

In the last decade, North Carolina policymakers have adopted economic growth policies. We’ve witnessed impressive results from it.

The jaw-dropping extent of North Carolina's incentives package for this "transformative" project would have eclipsed its benefits for North Carolinians.

The Mercatus Center explains why Amazon chose where it did for its HQ2(s) — and what lessons cities need to draw from it. Those lessons will sound familiar to JLF readers.

Seven out of 10 executives from incentivized companies didn't even know their companies were getting an incentive from North Carolina.

What? North Carolina bans Happy Hour? About that …

The Raleigh City Council keeps enforcing a revealed preference against disruptive innovation and playing protectionist for the 20th century modes.

So South Carolina is beating us in this made-up game. How are we comparing otherwise?