RALEIGH — Having spent most of my career commissioning, editing, or writing about public policy research, I understand its inherent limitations. Still, I cling to a belief, however naïve it may be, that careful study of complex problems can produce at least some clear answers that most policymakers will accept.
With nearly $22 billion of clean energy investments unveiled across North Carolina, 2024 marks a significant milestone in the state’s energy leadership.
I was disappointed to see both candidates in the recent presidential debate fail to discuss what was among the most important questions: how they would handle the mounting national debt.
Speaker Moore comments on the State Board of Elections’ partisan refusal to approve third party ballot access:
From the beginning, it has been clear that the State Health Plan (Plan) performed a well-reasoned, high-integrity, and correct procurement process for third-party administrative services. This process clearly revealed that Aetna’s bid was superior to Blue Cross NC’s, and the Plan’s Board of Trustees properly approved the contract’s award to Aetna. As Judge Melissa Owens Lassiter said in her opinion:
As the North Carolina Legislative Caucus on Economic Development and Foreign Trade (“EDFT Caucus”) wraps up its first year in the General Assembly, co-chairs Representative John Bell (R – Wayne) and Representative Robert Reives (D – Chatham, Randolph) round out a successful and productive year with two key initiatives, creating a study committee to examine ways the legislature can foster manufacturing growth in the state, and filing a resolution in the House encouraging Congress to work more closely on economic and trade issues with Germany, one of the leading sources of capital investment and trade in North Carolina.
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s hospital sector has undergone lots of mergers and acquisitions over the past decade. Now the pace of change is, if anything, accelerating.
As a business owner, I know a thing or two about competition. Achieving success requires a sense of mission, wisdom, effective management, and – most importantly – dedicated employees.
RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper vetoed the following bills:
RALEIGH — North Carolina voters will be asked this fall to remove a troubling ambiguity in the state constitution. An overwhelming, bipartisan majority of state legislators — 40 of 50 senators, 104 of 120 representatives — voted to place the amendment on the ballot.
Governor Roy Cooper signed the following bills into law:
(RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a federal rule that regulates ghost guns—untraceable weapons often made at home from kits—like other firearms. In an amicus brief filed in Garland v. VanDerStok, Attorney General Stein and a coalition of 24 attorneys general urged the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision that overturned the ghost gun rule, arguing that the rule is a common-sense measure to prevent gun violence and help law enforcement solve crimes.
