I studied history at a college with a Confederate soldier monument during the biggest progressive social upheaval since the 1960’s. I know just about every single way that old boy can be interpreted. What those idealistic college kids and older antagonizers recently did in Chapel…
If you want those with the largest incomes to pay substantially more in taxes, the current system works well.
There are many specific issues, concerns, programs, and personalities that divide the parties, but they mainly reflect a fundamental difference of opinion about what government is and what it ought to do.
There is a puzzling expression regularly being used by members of the Trump administration that, they argue, describes a major goal of their protectionist trade policies: “reciprocal trade.” The expression is troubling because, as an economist, I understand that all trade, by definition, is reciprocal. It is best to think of…
If there’s a universe in which lowering the cap on North Carolina’s income tax rate amounts to a “tax cut only for the wealthy,” our universe’s rules of mathematics — and language — must not apply. In this universe, a proposed constitutional amendment lowering the maximum state income tax rate…
Our two most-populous counties are responsible for a disproportionate share of North Carolina’s recent economic gains — but other counties, small and large, are also experiencing robust growth.
In the “summer of plastic straw bans,” North Carolina’s restaurant industry is feeling the heat. “Drunk people, they are walking around without straws and they are confused,” Hibernian Assistant General Manager Susan Kemben said. After a video of…
We simply can’t have people defacing public property because legal attempts to redress their grievances haven’t yet succeeded, or attempting to coerce government agencies to comply by threatening criminal action.
Residents soon will get voting guides. They may see sample ballots, or newspaper profiles. They’ll get fliers and postcards to recycle. Yard signs will become ubiquitous. These will help, maybe. But they won’t be enough for voters to make an informed decision at the polls, unless,…
A new school year is weeks away, leaving ambitious high schoolers to anticipate schedules packed with Advanced Placement classes. Expected to amp up a transcript’s awe factor, AP coursework offers precocious high school students a chance to earn college credit or advanced placements in college classes. It’s no surprise, then, that student…
