Jon Sanders

NC ratepayers were faced with overpaying for electricity by more than a billion dollars. A new law was going to save them about $850 million on the cost of future solar power — until Gov. Cooper decided to intervene.

This, I submit, is the same process we see when subsidized professional sports teams start demanding bigger and greater stadiums and when large corporations or industries receiving huge state subsidies start applying political pressures.

Georgia's policymakers rely on a made-up multiplier to claim "billions of dollars in economic activity" from film. Are they prepared to follow through with their charade to the point where Georgia state policy must effectively be run by Hollywood activists first?

Once again, when market choices don't square with their dictates, Raleigh's leaders choose to be on the cane-waving side of the "Keep off our lawn" news stories.

Not long ago I shook my head at a boast in a report by a government monopoly claiming that it is "Stimulating the State Economy." Turns out, it wasn't the only one.

The U.S. leads the world in cutting carbon dioxide emissions. U.S. emissions are at their lowest level since 1992 — and lowest per-capita level since 1950.

On the editorial side, media prefer higher taxes and higher costs on families by government policies. But they also have consumer-help desks that report on ways families can save money.

What would make Hollywood think they are "feeding the Georgia economy"? That's just silly.