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Friday Interview: Rebutting Minimum Wage Myths

RALEIGH — “We must raise the minimum wage.” That is one mantra emanating from progressives across the country and here in North Carolina. Progressive support for a mandated minimum wage is nothing new, nor are the likely negative impacts on the low-skilled workers the higher wage is supposed to be help. Dr. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar, discussed the economics of the minimum wage with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

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JLF’s Terry Stoops discusses N.C. opportunity scholarships in 2015

Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation director of research and education studies, discusses the outlook for North Carolina’s opportunity scholarships in 2015. Stoops offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 610).

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Incentive Battle To Be Renewed In Legislature

RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory is championing more incentives money for the tapped-out Job Development Investment Grant program to lure corporate interests to the state, and for lawmakers to enact legislation achieving that goal in the early weeks of the new session. Without more money to wave at potential corporate prospects, North Carolina will not be competitive with other states, McCrory has said.

Dan Way
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UNC Seeks To Enhance Its ‘Global Brand’

RALEIGH — One proposal being reviewed by the Board of Governors seeks to boost UNC’s international reach and enhance its “global brand.” It calls for $400,000 of new annual state funding to help link students, faculty, and staff with regions “critical to the state’s economic and strategic future,” namely China, India, Brazil, Mexico, and Africa. Building those relationships, a report states, would “prepare students to succeed in the global economy.”

Jesse Saffron
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James Piereson responds to Thomas Piketty’s economic arguments

James Piereson, president of the William E. Simon Foundation and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, responds to highly publicized arguments about income inequality from French economist Thomas Piketty. Piereson offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 609).

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Trump nominates Bishop to be deputy director for budget at OMB

"Dan has been a tireless fighter for our MAGA Movement in the House of Representatives on the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees," Trump said in a press release issued Tuesday night. "Dan will implement my cost-cutting and deregulatory agenda across all Agencies, and root out the Weaponized Deep State."

Theresa Opeka
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Democrats want federal court to address GOP challenge of 60,000 NC ballots

The North Carolina Democratic Party filed a lawsuit Friday to ensure challenges of 60,000 ballots in the state's latest election are addressed in federal court. Republicans filed the challenges with the State Board of Elections. The challenges could affect the outcome of the state Supreme Court race between Democrat Allison Riggs and Jefferson Griffin, along with a handful of state legislative contests.

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Griffin asks Appeals Court to order decision on election protests by Tuesday

Republican North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin is turning to North Carolina’s second-highest court for an order that would force state election officials to make a final decision about Griffin’s election protests Tuesday. The State Board of Elections had planned to hear oral arguments about the protests the following day, according to a document Griffin filed Friday with the state Court of Appeals.

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The Debrief: Remaining Covid Lawsuits + Sam Hayes Interview

This week on The Debrief, Mitch Kokai and Donna King discuss the remaining covid lawsuits and other court cases in North Carolina. Plus, North Carolina State Board of Elections Executive Director Sam Hayes sat down with Carolina Journal’s Theresa Opeka to talk about his first year in office, including his accomplishments and what’s on the...

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Civil Society

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For healthy civil society, politics needs to stay in its lane

Political and cultural causes are important. They motivate us to make the world around us better and hone our sense of justice. Also, the excitement of fighting the good fight can be, for lack of a better word, fun. But everything has its time and place. And even if we think a particular political issue...

David Larson
Opinion

Flashback: North Carolina’s Easter Monday tradition forged on the baseball diamond

On Good Friday state offices will be closed in North Carolina for Holy Week, along with 10 other states. However, that has not always been the case in North Carolina. The Monday after Easter — rather than Good Friday — was a legal holiday in North Carolina for 52 years, and for many years before...

Dallas Woodhouse