Gov. Roy Cooper

Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online that a Duke Energy lobbyist told investigators a top aide to Gov. Roy Cooper made untrue public statements about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The Daily Journal highlights a recent news report that appeared to blur the distinction between across-the-board tax cuts…

Of the four possible combinations, we at the John Locke Foundation have always favored the Freedom & Growth combination of low corporate taxation with low corporate welfare. Gov. Roy Cooper's choice is the cardinal opposite.

JLF’s health care researcher Jordan Roberts is recapping the health care legislation that passed (and didn’t pass) in North Carolina’s last legislative session. Medicaid Expansion Roberts writes: Medicaid expansion was a question of whether to expand our state’s Medicaid program to include able-bodied, working-age adults…

This week, JLF’s Jon Sanders published a research brief on the Duke Energy coal-ash cleanup. Sanders describes the situation: Prior to April 2019, Duke Energy had agreed with the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to close and excavate all but nine of its 31 coal-ash basins. DEQ had rated…

"Sue and settle" is an illiberal tool used by outside pressure groups in cahoots with willing government agencies to bring about a regulatory change they know they could not get through proper political channels.

How can it be "unfair" and not "reasonable" to sock consumers with the cleanup costs in 2014, but add extra cleanup costs in 2020 and then it’s not a problem? Is the governor no longer "on the side of consumers"?

At the same time, Cooper would have media, teachers, and you believe that money not taken from corporations is one-to-one money not given to teachers.

Roughly 100,000 teachers are employed by North Carolina public schools and public charter schools. These teachers garner lots of attention from elected officials. Right now that attention is coming from Gov. Roy Cooper and Lt. Gov. Dan Forest. Both sent communications to the teachers, creating a dueling narrative about how…