Jon Sanders

More and more, North Carolinians prefer cars, and for good reason: we're blessed with room to spread out.

A recent National Bureau of Economic Research working paper shows that higher heating bills costs lives. Keeping energy prices low is doubly important because energy is a basic human need, and as such, anything that raises its costs unnecessarily has a much bigger impact on poor families than on others.

How are things going for Gotcha, Raleigh's hand-picked scooter monopolist? The company just sent out a tweet. What's it say? Oh, dear.

I'm glad to see the governor swerve onto our side of the discussion on low tax rates, which is the empirically sound side of the argument.

Media and consumers agree: families having more choices is a good thing! This simple insight could improve reporting on charter schools and Opportunity Scholarships.

Updating a chart from the 2017 Spotlight report on "The Market Forces Behind North Carolina’s Falling Emissions" with the most recent data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Having room to spread out and having relatively less traffic congestion are generally good things. Those aren't problems to be solved by neglecting roads and spending scarce transportation dollars disproportionately on little-used options.

Listen to politicians, lobbyists, talking heads, editorialists, and activists discuss ways to reform electricity policy in North Carolina. What don't you hear?