Coolidge’s cubs teach important fiscal lesson
The 30th president used his pets to highlight tax and spending priorities.
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Backroads, byways, boondoggles, and brouhahas
Backroads, byways, boondoggles, and brouhahas is an occasional column — taken from news sources throughout North Carolina — highlighting how government spends our money and makes other questionable moves about which state residents may not be aware. Robeson County is where North Carolina ends. Interstate 95 cuts straight through…
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Special Needs Education Savings Account in high demand
North Carolina’s Special Needs Education Savings Account has seen a surge in applicants, outnumbering the available slots for the school-choice program. Applications closed April 2 with 1,430 students applying for the 330 open slots. The number of slots was determined by the General Assembly’s allocation…
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School leaders are more concerned about screen use at home than in schools
Educators are more concerned about how much time students spend on social media at home as compared to the time they spend online in the classroom. Education Week’s annual Technology Counts survey asked principals and school-based leaders across the country about…
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N.C. State’s Julie Mell rebuts myths about medieval Jewish moneylenders
Dr. Julie Mell, associate professor of history at N.C. State University, discusses themes from her book The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender. Mell offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio.
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N.C. State professor highlights myth of medieval Jewish moneylenders
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 778: Historical accounts of medieval Europe often depict the role of the Jewish money lender. That role is more myth than fact, according to Julie Mell, associate professor of history at N.C. State University. Mell has written a book exposing the myth and…
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Carolina Journal Radio No. 778: General Assembly to tackle important education issues in May
When the General Assembly returns to work in May, lawmakers will focus on key education-related issues, including school safety and the funding formula for school districts. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation vice president for research, assesses the legislature’s approach to education heading into the 2018 session in Raleigh. More than…
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Licensing rules block recent speech therapy grads from working in N.C.
See Editor’s Note at end of story. Alicia Moran is a junior at Bob Jones University in South Carolina, studying to get her bachelor’s degree in communications disorders. She wants to return to her home state of North Carolina to work, but the licensing scheme here may keep her away.
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Backroads, byways, boondoggles, and brouhahas
What follows is the first of an occasional column — taken from news sources throughout North Carolina — highlighting how government spends our money and makes other questionable moves about which state residents may not be aware. Reidsville in Rockingham County, like much of that region, has lost much…
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Five losers and one winner from protectionism
Typically, “saving American jobs” is the reason given for implementing protectionist trade measures, i.e., tariffs and quotas. The argument goes something like this: Foreign producers of a product are offering American consumers a more attractive price or better-quality product than they can get from American producers of the same…