March is madness for high school seniors. Each year, seniors mark March as the final month in the agonizing wait for college decisions. Early application timelines mean the admission process is blessedly over for some. But many still wait, even as stakes soar and odds seem to dwindle. UNC-Chapel Hill,…
Philanthropy should alleviate immediate needs, to be sure, but it should also promote the virtues and practices that help human beings flourish.
The official press release about a school safety committee's final recommendations omits a key point.
Under our form of government, you are not entitled to be happy, and you are not entitled to enjoy the rights of someone else’s labor.
The Program Evaluation Division has a compiled and released a comprehensive report that looks at how North Carolina regulates and controls liquor sales and offers ways and legislative options toward changing and modernizing the process. The thoughtful 59-page report, “Changing how North Carolina Controls…
Among many in the Democratic Party, attacking the rich is back in style. Some popular Democrats contend that large concentrations of wealth are, at best, unseemly and, at worst, absolutely immoral. From newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to possible presidential candidates, including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and New…
We don’t really live in rigidly separated “rural” places and “urban places,” and the largest share of North Carolinians live in places they and others would call suburban.
One hopes statewide school bond supporters can consider alternatives that address the same goal.
Making workers' labor more productive, through capital investment of various kinds, remains a better way to improve their well-being than hiking regulations or redistributing income.
It’s time to wake up, North Carolina. Enough is truly enough. In truth, it’s well past time lawmakers take substantive steps toward rewriting or eliminating much of the arcane laws governing alcohol, painfully documented in N.C. General Statute 18b. It runs nearly 150…
