Jon Sanders

Reforming North Carolina’s alcohol rules isn’t just about making the big decision about moving on from government control under an unnecessarily complicated ABC control system. It’s also about modernizing here and there, making practical fixes in individual areas of law.

Currently, North Carolina ranks 25th out of the 36 states that allow breweries at least some ability to self-distribute.

He said it was "The only way forward." There's no wiggle room there. But does Cooper still believe that? He appears to have backed off after other, unrelated events.

The negative impacts of the minimum wage is one of the items about which economists are in greatest agreement.

The Beacon Center out of Tennessee finds a tricky way to illustrate the arbitrary but perilous nature of occupational licensing enforcement.

The NYT is upset, but that doesn't change the reality that fixed-rail lines are a 19th century solution with a 19th century authoritarian approach to a 21st century problem. Should we build a super-expensive fixed line, when we could have flexible busing — oh, and Uber and Lyft?

Recent research and results continue to affirm outcomes expected by economists (but not media or progressives) from hiking the minimum wage.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) under the Obama administration had estimated that the mid-Atlantic OCS holds about 2.4 billion technically recoverable barrels of oil and 2.34 trillion technically recoverable cubic feet of natural gas.