Unless things change soon, North Carolina taxpayers will be on the hook for at least $145 million a year for a voucher scheme that funds private, mostly religious schools with no idea about what the... Read More
Contrary to one of the most often cited premises in so-called "bathroom bills" such as North Carolina's House Bill 2, transgender people do not pose a threat to others in public or private spaces... Read More
Donald Trump has always been well known for his “act first, worry about the mess later” approach to the world around him. Long before he became President, the blustering billionaire fashioned a... Read More
The movie “Hidden Figures,” in telling the story of three black women who were mission-critical to NASA, is one that everyone in the country and beyond should see. Mathematical genius Katherine... Read More
Lawmakers are considering a revised bill that would withhold state funds from local governments deemed to be sanctuary cities. A House Judiciary Committee discussed the bill Tuesday, but took no... Read More
Editorial by the Fayetteville Observer, reprinted by The Jacksonville Daily News, March 8, 2017. The original gerrymander would look familiar to North Carolina lawmakers, and to many of this state’s... Read More
by Paul O'Connor, Capitol Press Association, published in Asheville Citizen-Times, March 7, 2017. Reporters look for what is new, and that’s what the legislative press corps did that day years back... Read More
by Jim Tynen, Civitas Institute, March 8, 2017. On March 2, a violent leftist mob at Middlebury College kept one of the nation’s most distinguished writers and researchers from speaking. Is that a... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, March 10, 2017. To be fair, HB2, the Tar Heel “bathroom bill,” is not without its admirers. Down in Austin, a number of Texas legislators are trying to pass... Read More
They come in fear. They leave with hope. That’s one way to describe the many hundreds of people who make their way every year to Wilson’s Wesley Shelter, a nonprofit founded in 1983 to combat... Read More
