Tax cuts are not self-financing
While North Carolina’s GOP leaders may share a party label with Kansas Republicans or the Trump administration, their approach to fiscal policy has been quite different.
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High Point swinging at wild pitches in misguided stadium plan
Spring, in my mind, means one thing — the return of baseball. A few years ago, there was a campaign to make Opening Day a federal holiday. I signed the petition. From April through October, more often than not, there’s baseball on in my office during the afternoons, at home…
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North Carolina needs an alternative to occupational licensing
For half a century, making any reform to a state’s occupational licensing system has been nigh on impossible. How hard? In 2015, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics could find “only eight instances of the de-licensing of occupations over the past 40 years.” In recent months, however, the ice…
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Pay raise could lessen regulation
Bureaucrats often go far beyond the power clearly delegated to them by elected lawmakers, who in turn lack the knowledge or expertise to detect and stop regulatory abuses.
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Debate highlights flaws in N.C. criminal code
The Raise the Age bill's distinction between violent and nonviolent felonies exposes a larger issue.
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Party divides are no surprise
To say that today’s politics is more polarized in a partisan sense is not to say there aren’t still tensions within each party on some issues.
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Summer reading: It schools the mind
Languid summer days are near at hand. For students finishing the traditional academic year, time — free and fallow — beckons. But as days slip into weeks and months, something else accrues alongside rest and refreshment: a skills drop-off that erodes learning gains. Low-income students are most at risk. Unlike…
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Seeking protection, rather than competition
Americans are upset. Some are just mildly unhappy, others seem miserable, many are plain mad. A NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll reports that more than half have believed the country is “on the wrong track” in every month since February 2005. A Pew survey reveals most of us have been…
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Average pay isn’t the point
The real story of the past several years is that North Carolina lawmakers have been restructuring the pay scale for teachers in ways intended to attract and retain high performers.
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Former ambassador hopes his family’s story bolsters fight against terrorism
RALEIGH — Jim Cain didn’t feel any sense of urgency when he noticed his daughter had texted him on the morning of March 22, 2016. Nor did her immediate follow-up phone call cause concern. The former U.S. ambassador to Denmark was talking to a friend while waiting at Raleigh-Durham International…