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In an important step toward housing abundance in NC, SB 445 would legalize ADUs and allow residential and multifamily development in commercially zoned areas.

An important step toward housing abundance in North Carolina North Carolina’s housing affordability crisis is fundamentally a supply problem. Demand continues to grow as people and businesses move to the state, but housing production has struggled to keep pace. The result has been rising home prices, increasing rents, and declining affordability in communit...

The NCInnovation clawback is about basic fiscal discipline. Taxpayers should not fund speculative venture-capital-style projects when core obligations and affordability challenges remain.

Open Letter: North Carolina Should Reclaim the NCInnovation Endowment The Senate should reclaim the taxpayer-funded NCInnovation endowment and transfer the money to the Savings Reserve

HB 958, Election Law Changes, appeared to be moving quickly through the NCGA last year.

But then it suddenly dropped off the radar.

Now it is back, bigger and, mostly, better than ever.

Performance audits and other additions reinforce elections bill House Bill 958, Election Law Changes, appeared to be moving quickly through the General Assembly last year. It featured a host of election reforms, as seen in John Locke Foundation reviews of the original bill and a later amended version. But then it suddenly dropped off the radar. Now it is back, b...

Our work on tariffs and USMCA reminds policymakers that free-market trade policies serve NC families better than government-managed protectionism.

How Tariffs Threaten North Carolina Agriculture NC's agricultural industry, farmers, and economy face big risks if major trading partners retaliate against aggressive U.S. trade policy.

Did you know that Cornelius Harnett was one of two men that the English Crown refused to pardon in 1776 when it offered to pardon every other NC militiaman or agitator in the conflict?

The Unpardoned Patriot: Cornelius Harnett Cornelius Harnett's unwavering commitment to independence made him a target. Learn about the North Carolina patriot famously refused a general pardon in 1776.

The NC Senate voted to override Gov. Stein’s vetoof HB 87. That action, coupled with the House override of the same veto on May 20, means that NC has officially opted in to the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship program.

North Carolina's Growing School Choice Landscape North Carolina's commitment to school choice is evident with the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship and advancements in open enrollment discussions.

Op-Ed: 2026 has become an unexpectedly fierce mid-decade continuation of America’s ongoing gerrymandering war. NC and Virginia are both battlegrounds in that war, but there is a way they can call a cease-fire on gerrymandering.

Op-Ed: North Carolina and Virginia should declare a gerrymandering truce This op-ed originally appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Greensboro News & Record. It is reprinted here with their permission. 2026 has become an unexpectedly fierce mid-decade continuation of America’s ongoing gerrymandering war. North Carolina and Virginia are both battlegrounds in ...

The trouble with rational basis review: Why federal tiers-of-scrutiny doctrine doesn’t work in NC.

The trouble with rational basis review, part three North Carolina's application of rational basis review misinterprets economic rights as not fundamental, shielding regulations from constitutional scrutiny.

Supply-side housing reform is the best way to make NC more affordable: allow more homes to be built by removing artificial zoning and land-use barriers.

Law, not executive order, is the fix for housing shortage What's missing are laws to expand by-right development, reduce zoning restrictions, and allow the private market to build more homes.

The NC State Board of Elections has proposed changes to voter ID rules. Take a look at our Andy Jackson's public comment on those changes at an SBE hearing on June 9.

Public comment on proposed voter ID rules The North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) has proposed changes to voter ID rules. I offered a public comment at an SBE hearing on June 9. The prepared text of that comment is below: I am Andy Jackson with the John Locke Foundation. I support both the proposed voter ID rules changes. Many of....