Jon Sanders

This is one of the best articles I've read in the local press on the subject. Smart job, Smart Shopper.

Here are several Raleigh establishments' Instagram notifications before and after the governor's shutdown order. Their communications to patrons and friends offer a snapshot of an extraordinary time. They offer a picture of the very difficult choices being faced by restaurant owners everywhere.

All the ambiguity and rigmarole over whether Wake County or Gov. Cooper were closing gun stores as nonessential businesses are now moot.

What is Wake County officials' problem with people being able to buy guns and ammunition "during a declared state of emergency even within one’s home 'where the need for defense of self, family, and property is most acute'"? 

As of this morning, per Carrington's article in CJ, the Division of Employment Security had received 195,661 unemployment insurance claims from since March 16.

It's best for a fundamental civil right not merely to be strongly implied in the law. Make it explicit and remove a lot of uncertainty

I cannot find in state law where the sheriff has this authority. This is a bad move by the sheriff's office.

Bob Luddy, one of North Carolina's leading lights and a longtime friend of the John Locke Foundation, has a great piece in The American Spectator today. Entitled "Government Is No Match for the Coronavirus," Luddy's article makes it plain to see where our answers to this coronavirus are going to flow from: "ultimately it is the private sector that will provide the solutions."