Rick Henderson

Editor-in-chief, Carolina Journal
Rick Henderson became editor-in-chief of Carolina Journal in August 2016 after being managing editor of Carolina Journal since April 2009. Before that, he had worked more than a decade for newspapers in Denver, Colo., Las Vegas, Nev., and Southern California as an editorial writer and editor, columnist, and business reporter. Prior to that, he was at Reason magazine for nine years, splitting time between Southern California as a reporter and managing editor and Washington, D.C., where from 1992-96 he was Reason's first full-time Washington editor. He graduated in 1979 from UNC-Chapel Hill with a B.A. in political science. Rick lives in Raleigh with his wife and their menagerie of pets.

Posts by Rick Henderson (page 1)

  • Latest developments in Atlantic Coast Pipeline controversy

    Catching you up on the latest: • Wednesday, Gov. Roy Cooper held a press conference slamming the General Assembly for interfering in the pipeline deal. He said he didn’t know who was initiated the negotiations. Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, held his own press briefing immediately after Cooper’s saying…
    Rick Henderson, February 15, 2018
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  • House tax plan might “cut cut cut cut cut” stadium deals

    It didn’t grab headlines, but the House tax reform plan due out today includes a nugget free-marketeers should find encouraging. From the Wall Street Journal (behind the paywall): Tax-exempt bonds could no longer be used to build professional sports stadiums. That’s right. One major tool attracting public subsidies for…
    Rick Henderson, November 2, 2017

  • Tax Foundation Comparison Offers New Ammo For Tax Reformers

    The folks at the Tax Foundation just released their annual International Tax Competitiveness Index, giving conservatives and entrepreneurs new ammunition in their call to reform and streamline the U.S. tax code. The United States ranked 30th of the 35 nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, with…
    Rick Henderson, October 31, 2017
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  • Former JLF Chairman Art Pope elected chairman of Bradley Foundation

    Art Pope John Locke Foundation founder and former chairman Art Pope today was elected chairman of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, one of the nation’s largest conservative grant-making charitable organizations. Pope is the owner and chairman of Variety Wholesalers Inc., which owns…
    Rick Henderson, April 6, 2017

  • CJ reporting cited in rumors about Trump’s possible EPA chief

    One of the Cabinet positions yet to be filled in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is head of the Environmental Protection Administration, and North Carolina’s secretary of environmental quality, Donald van der Vaart, has emerged as a dark-horse candidate. A recent Carolina Journal report by Dan…
    Rick Henderson, December 7, 2016

  • Hillary’s history with James Comey

    In April, at the Front Page Magazine website, Carolina Journal contributor Lloyd Billingsley foreshadowed yesterday’s move by FBI Director James Comey to look the other way when confronted with the “careless” handling of classified emails by likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton. It turns…
    Rick Henderson, July 6, 2016

  • Campaign dispatch, April 26, 2016

    • Lt. Gov. Dan Forest has produced the first ad for his re-election campaign, and it focuses on his leadership of the opposition to the Charlotte “bathroom” ordinance, which resulted in House Bill 2. • A fascinating op-ed column in the Los Angeles Times by law professors from William & Mary…
    Rick Henderson, April 26, 2016

  • Campaign dispatch, April 19, 2016: Elon Poll edition

    • A new Elon University Poll  of registered N.C. voters defies the conventional wisdom (and the media narrative) about House Bill 2: A near-majority (49 percent) said the state should not allow cities to mandate “ungendered” (my term) bathrooms, changing…
    Rick Henderson, April 19, 2016