It’s not all Charlotte and Raleigh
Our two most-populous counties are responsible for a disproportionate share of North Carolina’s recent economic gains — but other counties, small and large, are also experiencing robust growth.
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De-strawed customers are ‘distrawght’
In the “summer of plastic straw bans,” North Carolina’s restaurant industry is feeling the heat. “Drunk people, they are walking around without straws and they are confused,” Hibernian Assistant General Manager Susan Kemben said. After a video of…
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Monument protests marred by illegality
We simply can’t have people defacing public property because legal attempts to redress their grievances haven’t yet succeeded, or attempting to coerce government agencies to comply by threatening criminal action.
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WFU’s Jury Sunshine Project a valuable resource for informing voters
Residents soon will get voting guides. They may see sample ballots, or newspaper profiles. They’ll get fliers and postcards to recycle. Yard signs will become ubiquitous. These will help, maybe. But they won’t be enough for voters to make an informed decision at the polls, unless,…
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The movement to drop APs for more rigorous coursework
A new school year is weeks away, leaving ambitious high schoolers to anticipate schedules packed with Advanced Placement classes. Expected to amp up a transcript’s awe factor, AP coursework offers precocious high school students a chance to earn college credit or advanced placements in college classes. It’s no surprise, then, that student…
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Carolina voters are politically diverse
If we forget that there are lots of Democratic voters in “red” counties and Republican voters in “blue” ones, we exaggerate the extent of the partisan divide and oversimplify conditions that are actually complicated and interesting.
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Federal reform boosts state economy
A new study projects that thanks to federal tax reform, North Carolinians will see an average increase in take-home pay over the coming decade of $18,287 across all households and $31,608 for married couples with two kids.
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Georgia’s movie miracle relies on special effects and spurious assumptions
Time Magazine’s Aug. 6 special issue focuses on the American South. One of the articles is about Georgia’s film production incentives, entitled “How Georgia Became the Hollywood of the South.” The Twitter account G.H. Davey asked me about it. “Having seen some of you criticism re film incentives in…
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Big Almond and Big Coconut aren’t pulling the wool over your eyes
We’ve had no shortage of goofiness at the General Assembly in the past few weeks. And we’re not just talking about the recently convened short session, which seems to have little purpose other than trying to fix embarrassing mistakes in the election process the same General Assembly…
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Getting policy right takes time
After thousands of low-income students were randomly assigned to the pre-K program or to a control group, program participants showed some academic gains at first — but by the third grade the benefits disappeared.