After adjusting test scores for student characteristics, only seven states — including North Carolina — rank high on at least three of four NAEP exams. Most of them spend less than the national average on public schools.
House Speaker Tim Moore, Senate leader Phil Berger, and their colleagues are determined not to repeat North Carolina's sad history of spending too much during boom years and then having to raise regressive sales taxes during recessionary years.
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…
“Politics have no place in our court system in North Carolina or any place else. Fairness deserves better than that, equality deserves better than that, and justice deserves better than that.” Fine sentiments, expressed by N.C. Supreme Court Associate Justice Mike Morgan in a speech late last month at West…
Opinion polls and everyday experience confirm that most North Carolinians, like most Americans, are dissatisfied with the way we practice politics.
In reading, the state with the highest test scores among low-income students is Indiana, a Republican state that ranks 49th in spending and earns plaudits for conservatives for its policies.
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…
The ill-advised and widely denounced tariff rhetoric coming from the White House has stressed manufacturers and upset the markets. The initial targets were steel and aluminum, specifically from China. The move apparently came from some misguided belief about current-day Andrew Carnegies making tracks to Pittsburgh to…
If places adopt new policies and get good results — or even just look like they might get good results — policymakers in other places can feel like they’ll fall behind if they don’t follow suit.
Even partial deregulation of licensing would increase the number of North Carolinians entering the occupations in question — and would benefit consumers, though not necessarily the current providers.
