Regulation

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.

Carolina Journal‘s John Trump writes for Daily Journal: Buffalo Trace and Blanton’s are virtual unicorns for bourbon lovers living in North Carolina. Getting the chance to buy a bottle, particularly Blanton’s, in North Carolina is — using a movie reference — akin to finding a golden ticket in…

Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online on the public relations group assembled to sell Gov. Roy Cooper’s actions linked to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. John Trump’s Daily Journal highlights one example of the problems created by North Carolina’s system of regulating alcohol.

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

Carolina Journal‘s John Trump reports: The stack of bills from N.C. lawmakers looking to reform and modernize the state’s 80-year-old liquor laws is growing. In the Senate, lawmakers filed Senate Bill 290 on Monday, March 18. A companion bill, House Bill 378, came Tuesday morning. The measures would…

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.

John Hood writes for Carolina Journal‘s Daily Journal: Among the 50 states, North Carolina is relatively free. There are various ways to measure this. One reasonable and consumer-friendly tool is the Cato Institute’s “Freedom in the 50 States” project. On its website, you can compare state performance on…