WRAL-TV recently highlighted a report released by NC Senate Democrats of a “potential” $1 billion dollar budget gap in the North Carolina. What the story fails to discuss is the poor track... Read More
by Patrick McHugh, NC Policy Watch, July 11, 2017. Does it feel like your paycheck never goes as far as it used to? Do you scratch your head when leaders in Raleigh talk about how great our economy is... Read More
by Paul O'Connor, The Insider, published in The Asheville Citizen-Times, July 12, 2017. Ferrel Guillory, the former newsman and current UNC scholar, often lectures to journalists with slides that... Read More
by Jim Tynen, Civitas Review online, July 13, 2017 I have to hand it to the N&O, it’s had some stories recently that made me sit up at the breakfast table and say, “What the …?” Like this one... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, July 14, 2017. State school superintendent Mark Johnson might be in the wrong job. Instead of in Raleigh, perhaps he should be in Washington, handling White House... Read More
Editorial by Wilson Daily Times, July 13, 2017. Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill authorizing charity game nights for fear that the gambling law carve-out would become a Trojan horse for video poker... Read More
While there is no shortage of opinions and controversy about how best to improve schooling, virtually everyone agrees that the quality of teaching is the critical variable. To improve schooling is... Read More
by Dr. Michael Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, June 30, 2017. By some measures, North Carolina’s economy has moved in reverse compared to the national economy in recent years. Specifically, two... Read More
North Carolinians had much to celebrate over the Independence Day weekend. Unlike residents of, say, New Jersey. Even though the Garden State had no budget in place, Jerseyites saw Gov. Chris Christie... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 6, 2017. What if people began to move back to North Carolina’s small towns and rural areas? What if they started family farms, the kind people have been... Read More
