[Update (12/14/2020): On December 10, 2020, the North Carolina Department of Justice issued an informal opinion letter that differs from the opinion that I reach in this blog post. In the post, I conclude that cities and counties probably lack statutory authority to implement civil penalties to enforce the Governor’s COVID-19 orders. The December 10 […]
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Systemic Bias and Property Taxes
Monday, November 23rd, 2020The social justice protests that erupted in many areas of the country this summer focused mostly on law enforcement. But systemic bias can infect any area of government, even the seemingly objective world of property tax administration. For proof, check out the results of a large national property tax study released earlier this year: Based […]
Challenging the Results in Elections to Council of State Offices and the General Assembly: How is it Done?
Friday, November 20th, 2020[For a fuller discussion, with statutory citations, click] North Carolina’s election laws provide two different ways for losing candidates to challenge an election—one way for most elections and one way for top state offices. For the great majority of elective offices, the challenge consists of an election protest that is initiated in the county boards […]