Opinion

Emails show UNC lobbying against bill to teach founding documents

Uncovered emails from senior officials at the University of North Carolina revealed the government affairs team worked behind the scenes to stop college constitutional literacy legislation called the REACH Act, according to emails obtained in a recent public records request. I requested the records to see what discussions the UNC System lobbyists might be having...

Jameson C. Broggi
Opinion

Of course books can be dangerous

A thought occurred to me as I was traveling through the North Carolina Piedmont last week. The notion didn’t have to do with my location but was instead prompted by the lecture I was listening to on the way. It was one of an excellent series on the world’s political hot spots issued by a...

John Hood

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Sports betting bill advances to NC Senate floor

On Tuesday, North Carolina Senate committee members voted to advance a bill legalizing sports betting in the state. It is calendared for the Senate floor session scheduled to gavel in at 9:30 Wednesday morning. Filed in March, House Bill 347 legalizes online and in-person wagering on professional and college sports in North Carolina. According to...

Grant Lefelar
Opinion

Banning CRT won’t limit how teachers can teach

The way progressives have reacted to a bill limiting controversial racial school lessons should tell us everything we need to know about how they view education. House Bill 187, called the Equality in Education Act, currently in the Senate, promises to effectively end the teaching of critical race theory within North Carolina schools. The bill,...

Kevin Garcia-Galindo
News

Compelled speech would be banned on NC college campuses in House bill

The Prohibit Compelled Speech/Higher Ed Act, House Bill 607, sits in the Senate Rules Committee this week, after passing the House earlier this month. It seeks to extend and codify protections from compelled speech for students and college applicants in North Carolina. More specifically, this bill would prevent colleges and Universities from using Diversity, Equity,...

Kevin Garcia-Galindo
Opinion

Carolina voters dislike big government

North Carolina Democrats are frustrated. It’s not hard to see why. Since 2008, when Barack Obama narrowly won the state and Kay Hagan beat Elizabeth Dole by a more comfortable margin, Democrats have fought hard but lost every subsequent presidential and Senate race in the Tar Heel State. In 2010, Republicans won their first majorities...

John Hood
Opinion

Political and racial gerrymander myths

In these political times the last rationalization of liberals tired of losing is the cry that everything they don’t like legislatively is because of the “gerrymander.” On NBC, CNN and MSNBC in May 2023, Gov. Roy Cooper said: “Technologically, diabolical gerrymandering. Some of the worst in the country.” He didn’t like limitations on abortion or...

Paul Stam