carolina cronyism

A bill before the General Assembly would restore the state's protection of North Carolina's top stakeholders in electricity policy: the consumers. Such protection is absolutely vital.

Universal license recognition is an idea that the North Carolina General Assembly has entertained but not yet adopted. Why not?

In 2019, which was not an election year, Gov. Cooper pledged $146 million in incentives grants. In the election year of 2020, however, Cooper pledged over $519 million. That's over half a billion dollars — and over three and a half times worse than his giveaways in 2019.

Cooper’s corporate welfare tally for 2020 is jaw-dropping: $519.3 million pledged to just 48 corporations.

So far this year Cooper has pledged nearly half a billion dollars in grants to individual corporations. The count so far is nearly $445 million to just 22 corporations.

Make no mistake: the state government has no business telling hospitals how many beds they think they need. Why do they do it? Because of Certificate of Need (CON) laws.

If there is one political issue that's defined North Carolina politics for nearly a year now, it's Gov. Roy Cooper's decision to veto the state budget. Cooper frames the budget debate as "a choice between further cuts in corporate taxes or investments in our teachers." PolitiFact's done nothing with Cooper's depiction. WRAL doubled down with a poll supporting it.

The case for EVs to curb climate emissions (let alone mitigate hurricanes) is too weak for Gov. Cooper to force. Worse, the trend of research makes them seem much more likely to have negative unintended consequences.