NC SPIN reaches its end
“I watch you every Sunday” became the opening line for many a conversation I’ve had over the past 22 years while standing in a checkout line, walking through a crowd, or sitting down to dinner.
“I watch you every Sunday” became the opening line for many a conversation I’ve had over the past 22 years while standing in a checkout line, walking through a crowd, or sitting down to dinner.
John Locke Foundation Chairman John Hood discusses a recent comment from Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, criticizing Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-19 policy. Hood offered these comments during the Dec. 18, 2020, edition of “NC SPIN.”
Our thinking about social and technological change is warped by the materials that happen to survive. Scholars name historical ages after rocks and metals. Archaeologists sift through mounds of pottery shards.
About 300,000 fewer North Carolinians have jobs today than in February. Thousands face bankruptcy or eviction. Some restaurants and other small businesses have already closed.
John Locke Foundation Chairman John Hood discusses Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive order setting a statewide curfew of 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Hood offered these comments during the Dec. 11, 2020, edition of “NC SPIN.”
In a free society, government can’t just tell people to shut up. Nor can government divide private organizations into categories, allowing some but not others to spend money on politics.
If we want some semblance of normalcy to return to our economy, our communities, our households, and our personal freedoms, we cannot afford merely to assume vaccination rates will be high.
John Locke Foundation Chairman John Hood and Vice President Donna Martinez discuss unresolved issues linked to North Carolina’s 2020 elections. Hood and Martinez offered these comments during the Dec. 4, 2020, edition of “NC SPIN.”
When employers, governments, schools, and other institutions use race or ethnicity to decide who will be hired or served, that is discrimination. Depending on context, it is either flatly illegal or at least fraught with peril.
About 41% of voters in union households picked Trump this year. They went 40% for Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, and 39% for John McCain. Reagan won 44% in 1980 and 46% in 1984.
John Locke Foundation Chairman John Hood discusses N.C. political changes since the 1970s. Hood offered these comments during the Nov. 27, 2020, edition of “NC SPIN.”
Maximizing freedom is a core conservative goal. Over the past 10 years of largely conservative governance in North Carolina, we have made significant progress toward that goal.