The hubbub over money in big-time college sports is making one thing perfectly clear: Our universities are doing a terrible job teaching economics. The debate centers on two assumptions. The first is... Read More
Usually people who have stretches of interstate highway named after them do not embark on state Senate careers, especially, knowing that if they win, they would be starting out as a freshman of the... Read More
The more days that pass since Governor Pat McCrory signed the state budget, the more confusing that budget becomes, especially when trying to figure out what it means for public schools in North... Read More
Justin Wolfers, a University of Michigan economist and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote a piece for The New York Times a couple of weeks ago that was partly a response to a previous... Read More
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, August 11, 2014. Too often in America today events meet the lowered expectations of our more cynical natures. Case in point, this statement last week by University... Read More
Over lunch Mickey and Minnie were talking about Governor McCrory’s statement last week on the influx of child immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Mickey was outraged. “McCrory... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 12, 2014. On the day the state Senate adopted the budget, Jeff Jackson from Charlotte stood to debate the bill. He complained that the 260-page spending... Read More
There appears to be some confusion and displeasure about a provision that changes the way that budget writers construct the education budget. The issue boils down to when and where to include... Read More
This news article about changes to NC's film industry tax credit program not only highlights the obvious, but illustrates how ridiculous progressive liberals sound when they try to argue against... Read More
By now, you've probably heard that the $21 billion state budget for 2014-15 gives teachers raises and doesn't cut thousands of people off of Medicaid, as once proposed. But the budget, signed last... Read More
