Friday Feature

Today's Friday Feature comes courtesy of TrueMeckDem, who is a member of the board at one of our state's very solid non-profits, Democracy North Carolina. These are great folks doing great work on some really important issues.

With so many non-profits working in so many different policy areas, it's hard sometimes to know who you can count on to do the hard work. Two weeks ago I wrote about the Budget and Tax Center at NC Justice. Today I invite you to visit the NC Public Interest Research Group, headed by Rob Thompson. In particular, I'm focusing on their Utilities Watchdog Project.

This year I hope to implement a series of "Friday Features" that will highlight some of the great non-profit organizations working here in North Carolina. One of the most reliable and effective is the NC Justice Center. Today's Friday Feature focuses on one part of NC Justice, the Budget and Tax Center.

People across the political spectrum can disagree on many things, but when it comes to the base of facts needed to craft effective public policy, even free-market extremists turn to the Budget and Tax Center as a dependable source. You should too, especially when you're looking for data to fend off assaults on sanity from people who make up whatever "facts" they need to support their arguments.