A federal court signaled Thursday that General Assembly Republicans’ gambit to create race-neutral legislative districts may backfire. A three-judge panel in North Carolina’s U.S. Middle District Court ordered both sides in the Covington v. North Carolina lawsuit…
The U.S. Supreme Court returned to work in October with plenty of high-profile issues on its docket. Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow in constitutional studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, oversees analysis of the court’s last term in the latest edition of the Cato Supreme Court Review. During a recent visit to…
A three-judge panel overseeing the federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s legislative election maps wants names of at least three people who could draw new sets of maps. The panel made no decision after a hearing today about whether to order new maps. But the judges have ordered names of…
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau found in 2016, North Carolina had the fourth-fastest wage growth in the nation. The Tar Heel State trailed only Idaho (6.3 percent), Massachusetts (5.8 percent), Oklahoma (5.1 percent), and Wyoming (4.7 percent) in median household-income growth. With a growth rate of 8.6 percent,…
Politicians and policy analysts clashed Tuesday over school construction costs and who should pay. The rural-urban skirmish over state tax dollars dominated the hourlong debate into whether reform is needed in distribution of state lottery money and sales taxes, the role state and local bonds should…
Proponents of school choice in North Carolina have reason to cheer the state’s ninth-place ranking in the Center for Education Reform Parent Power! Index for 2017. But they may want to soften their applause, as challenges remain in providing even more parents and students with…
RALEIGH — The political interests of colleges and universities are adding to a growing list of problems for the schools over the past decade, and the free market will punish them accordingly, experts say. University cartels grasp for revenue and squelch accountability. The federal government is partly at fault…
A new initiative in North Carolina, Teaching Scholars Award Program, aims to encourage young teachers to work in rural areas in exchange for financial rewards and enrichment opportunities. A collaboration between N.C. State University College of Education and…
State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants to save North Carolina nearly $400 million. Folwell wants Congress to extend the one-year moratorium on the Obamacare health insurance tax, which hurt self-insured health plans like North Carolina’s. The tax also affects those with Medicare…
RALEIGH — North Carolina is teeming with new business owners, some of whom not yet old enough for middle school. But age is no concern for entrepreneurs like Leala, Eliana, and Titus Breed, who, at 7, 9, and 10, respectively, launched Grow Green Essentials, a line of organic cleaning…
