With Hurricane Florence fast approaching — and parts of the state still recovering from Hurricane Matthew — the governor, for the first time, issued an evacuation order. Local evacuation orders as... Read More
Old McDonald had a farm, With a B-Word here and an F-Word there, and a J-word, M-Word, N-Word, Q-word, S-word Old McDonald…….. Welcome to Political Correctness (PC) in America where the only... Read More
A few years ago, a couple of economists made a big splash by predicting almost half of occupations in the country had a big chance of being replaced by automation and technology in coming decades... Read More
Wealthy North Carolinians pay a higher share of their incomes in taxes than do middle-income North Carolinians, who in turn have a higher effective tax rate than the poor. This is a factual statement... Read More
We know that teachers mattermore to student achievement than any other school-related factor, including services, facilities and leadership. Yet for years we’ve forced teachers to work in a broken... Read More
The North Carolina General Assembly has correctly focused on raising salaries for teachers during the past six years while compensation for principals and assistant principals left our state at or... Read More
North Carolina’s economy is in reasonably good shape. Over the past five years of available data, our state’s employers have added 480,000 net new jobs, with our job-creation rate exceeding the... Read More
North Carolina schools just observed the 10th anniversary of the 100 percent Tobacco-free Schools Law. When this law passed in 2008, NC immediately became a national leader in protecting its children... Read More
If North Carolina election officials are forced to comply with federal subpoenas for election data, the government would have information about how more than two million people voted over the past... Read More
A handful of lawsuits which threatened to upend North Carolina’s November elections resolved quietly over the past few days. With the situation settling, several N.C. political experts offered... Read More
