The Benedictine monks who founded Belmont Abbey College 138 years ago are better known for peacefulness than for trend-setting. But the Gaston County campus is the scene of a bold experiment watched... Read More
The announcement of a deal with Google to bring ultra-fast Internet to the Triangle is being hailed like rain in the desert. Amid an economy that, flashes of optimism aside, remains in stagnation, we... Read More
by Amanda Lehmert, Greensboro News-Record, January 29, 2015. State Sen. Phil Berger filed legislation Wednesday that would allow magistrates and register of deeds employees to recuse themselves from... Read More
North Carolina business leaders on Wednesday called for the legislature to increase state transportation spending by billions of dollars over the coming decade – but they refused to discuss possible... Read More
Niche.com Inc. is a Pittsburgh, Penn.-based company that evaluates and ranks K-12 schools, colleges, cities, and neighborhoods. It recently released a 2015 ranking of public schools and school... Read More
Vouchers. Charter schools. Virtual charter schools. These are some of the leading examples of school choice – a catchy phrase referring to what others call education reform or, more simply put... Read More
In December, employers in North Carolina added 15,100 more payroll jobs than they cut (+0.4 percent), due entirely to hiring in the private sector. With that gain, the state ended 2014 with... Read More
It was a rare feat: Frank Luntz somehow found the twenty maddest-at-Obama people in the country and put them in a ‘focus group’ on Fox News after the President’s State of the Union speech... Read More
The timing couldn’t be more perfect for this year’s “ School Choice Week,” the nationally orchestrated right-wing funded annual public relations extravaganza touting alternatives to... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory should read the new biography of a predecessor by Julian Pleasants. It’s called “The Political Career of W. Kerr Scott, The Squire from Haw River,” and it might inspire the... Read More
