by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, September 28, 2017. The Index retreated slightly in August from its reading in July. However, this was not unexpected given the Index's strong rise in... Read More
Sandra Byrd has been a decorated North Carolina high school teacher in western North Carolina and an associate professor at UNC-Asheville, where she also served as assistant provost. So she seemed a... Read More
Editorial by The Charlotte Observer, reprinted in The Burlington Times-News, September 29, 2017. The Graham-Cassidy health care bill appears to be mercifully dead, as Senate Majority leader Mitch... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, reprinted in Jacksonville Daily News, September 28, 2017. We weren’t even close. The winner played Major League Baseball. We barely made it to Little League. When... Read More
From Middlebury to Berkeley, Chapel Hill to Minnesota, battles over free speech are raging on America’s college campuses. Student protests and recent incidents involving violence and loss of life... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, September 24, 2017. We confess that we’ve been terribly naive. When we found out that an unregulated and possibly harmful chemical was being deliberately... Read More
While legislative and congressional districts are redrawn every 10 years to match population changes — so everyone’s vote counts equally — North Carolina’s judicial districts haven’t been... Read More
The latest effort in Washington to repeal and not actually replace the Affordable Care Act has a different name, the Cassidy-Graham plan, but it should look familiar. It is essentially a proposal like... Read More
The annual testing data and report cards for North Carolina’s public schools are out. Here are the headlines. Achievement rose in some areas and declined in others, with most changes being fairly... Read More
Legislative leaders on Thursday fired shots across the bow of Gov. Roy Cooper and the state Historical Commission in the ongoing battle over Confederate monuments on public grounds in North Carolina... Read More
