Tag: property rights

Property rights are worth defending

By John Hood Raleigh, NC – There’s always a cost to protecting property rights. No rational person has ever suggested otherwise. In free societies that place a high value on the individual right to own and control private property, it’s…

Where are you, Earl of Chatham?

Pittsboro, NC – In April of 1771 Chatham County was established and named for the Earl of Chatham who was a “Defender of American Rights in the British Parliament.” We need him now. The newly appointed Chatham County Planning Board…