Regulation

Allow in-home visits by licensed cosmetologists and barbers and let them set up home businesses. People want (and will increasingly need) their services, and as many shops are likely to close over the next few weeks, practitioners will need places to work.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the John Locke Foundation is offering freedom-forward ideas to help government address the resulting problems. Amy Cooke discusses those ideas during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Terry Stoops analyzes challenges and opportunities linked to the North Carolina’s transition to online learning…

Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online about the COVID-19 shutdown’s impact on those who cut hair and perform manicures. John Trump’s Daily Journal urges N.C. leaders to loosen restrictions on buying liquor.

Andrew Stuttaford asks at National Review Online how long we’ll be dealing with emergency measures tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether Britain’s COVID-19 lockdown will be worth what it will cost — a bill involving far more than just money — was and is, for now, unknowable. That…

This is one of the best articles I've read in the local press on the subject. Smart job, Smart Shopper.

Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a recent federal change involving gun stores. The Department of Homeland Security added gun dealers, ranges, and manufacturers to its essential business coronavirus-response guide on Saturday. The updated guidance from DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) now considers “workers…

Andrew McCarthy of National Review Online responds to President Trump’s suggestion that he might issue a quarantine. The powers of the federal government in general, and of the president in particular, to quarantine American citizens are not cut-and-dried. The Supreme Court has long recognized that citizens of the…