News Articles
Letter: Nurse Practitioners Offer Solution
Tyler Younts
May 15th, 2013
NCICL Staff Attorney, Tyler Younts, wrote a letter to the editor concerning his recent white paper about nurse practitioners and the solution they offer to the growing healthcare problems.
In NC budget, where did the $1 billion go?
Dan Kane
Apr 28th, 2013
During the past four years, as Democrats and Republicans battled over sales and income taxes, higher tuition at state universities and the loss of 4,350 teachers in public schools, a substantial amount of money slipped through the fingers of state leaders. It didn’t disappear in one big sweep. The money stayed out of the state treasury, with little debate or notice, through scores of breaks in the state’s tax code. Some of the cash vanished in a string of new breaks granted by legislators, while still more evaporated because of loopholes approved years ago that continued to grow.
Take the Full Measure of State Economic Incentives
Jon Sanders
Apr 23rd, 2013
Local media consumers may have picked up a bit of trivia lately: North Carolina's new governor isn't a Democrat. This break from The Way Things Are Done 'Round Here has led to the humor of news stories written with apparent surprise and upset that the Republican Gov. Pat McCrory is doing things differently from his Democratic predecessors. One area in which McCrory is not doing things differently, however, is in using economic incentives. Granted, his approach is different. McCrory has this idea of a public/private partnership, which amounts to admitting a few private-sector businessmen into the circle of All-Wise Economic Lever Pullers, which means that on top of the other concerns with state incentives programs he would add concerns over transparency. His belief in the power of incentives and their importance to growing the state's economy, however, is the same as the previous governor's. Witness the MetLife deal.
How Hollywood Is Ripping Off Taxpayers
Eileen Norcross
Apr 16th, 2013
From Massachusetts to North Carolina, Michigan and Iowa, a similar picture is emerging: Film tax credits don't deliver to state economies what they cost to treasuries and taxpayers.
NC needs a truer accounting of incentives
Jeanette Doran
Apr 16th, 2013
Jeanette Doran, NCICL Executive Director, wrote a point of view opinion on Governor McCrory's plan to privatize the economic development efforts of the state Department of Commerce.
McCrory plan would open state's Medicaid business to private companies
Lynn Bonner
Apr 4th, 2013
Gov. Pat McCrory wants to overhaul the state’s Medicaid program by having managed care companies offer health care plans for poor, elderly and disabled people.
The Defense of Religion Act is dead. Why did it exist?
Jeremy Markovich
Apr 4th, 2013
The Defense of Religion Act of 2013 didn't have a prayer. It asked North Carolina’s General Assembly to disregard the First Amendment to the Constitution. The state representatives who introduced it didn’t expect it to pass. If it had, state law wouldn't have changed. Jeanette Doran, NCICL Executive Director, is quoted in the article explaining the interpretation of the fourteenth amendment.
Administrative Law Section Newsletter
North Carolina Bar Association
Mar 26th, 2013
The newsletter for the Administrative Law Section of the NC Bar Association included NCICL's white paper on the NC Board of Education being subject to the Administrative Procedures Act.
NCDMV will issue immigrant driver’s license without unpopular pink stripe
Bruce Siceloff & Anne Blythe
Mar 22nd, 2013
After weeks of protest from civil rights lawyers, immigrant advocates, Democrats and religious leaders, the state Division of Motor Vehicles revealed Thursday that it has removed an unpopular pink stripe from the design of driver’s licenses that will be issued, starting next week, to young immigrants in a federal program that postpones their deportation for two years.
NC voter ID proposal brings out opponents and advocates
Rob Christensen
Mar 13th, 2013
The politically volatile issue of whether North Carolina should require voters to have photo identification brought an overflow crowd and emotional testimony to the legislature Tuesday.