Gov. Roy Cooper

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Writing at realclearpolicy.com, Locke President Donald Bryson makes the critical point that sound fiscal decisions matter. He points to North Carolina as the model for other states in being able to weather the COVID-19 pandemic without cutting core services or raising taxes, as other states are doing. Ours really…

New cases are down 66% since Gov. Cooper lifted nearly all restrictions, but a new study based on computer models insists they should be increasing.

Now that legislative leaders have agreed to a topline number for the new state budget, we await details of how they propose to use taxpayer dollars to fund state government operations. Carolina Journal reported this week: With the end of the state’s fiscal year just three weeks away, the…

All things considered, over 99.9% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone. An estimated 70.3% of adult North Carolinians now have immunity.

Fewer than half of the "new" deaths reported actually occurred in the past three weeks, while roughly the same proportion occurred back in February or earlier.

Here are how North Carolina's Covid numbers have changed in the three weeks since Cooper's announcement. They are dropping like Wile E. Coyote after looking down.

Martin Kulldorff writes of the strange response he and other health experts received from U.S. media and big tech when they spoke from their expertise about the initial and ongoing response to the Covid-19 pandemic as they witnessed "basic principles of public health [were] thrown out of the window."