Jon Sanders

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?

A bill to sweeten the pot with more government giveaways for "big boys with deep pockets" only gives good-government, free-market advocates pause, it seems.

The number of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in North Carolina approaches 10,000, which includes over 2,000 in the Raleigh metropolitan area and over 4,000 in the Charlotte metropolitan area.