“If you look at the U.S. current account balance … we are ceding about $450 billion of our wealth to mostly Southeast Asia and a little bit to Mexico,” Kyle Bass, Founder of Hayman Capital Management, told the Fox Business Channel. If you are looking for evidence to support the…
North Carolina is one of the places to which people still like to relocate, but relocation isn’t as common as it used to be.
The N.C. Supreme Court's record this year suggests the next election could upend common voting coalitions.
Richard Burr was reelected to his third term in the U.S. Senate by drawing the votes of a strong majority (64 percent) of white North Carolinians, yes, but also 49 percent of Hispanic North Carolinians.
I have found the recent demonization of Facebook and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg fascinating and revelatory. We have discovered that during the 2016 presidential campaign the social media giant played unwitting host to hundreds of Russian bots and fake accounts peddling misinformation about the candidates. It has also attracted bad…
North Carolina ranks 44th in the nation in access to health care. When you consider we have great access in some parts of the state — those close to metropolitan areas and teaching hospitals in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the Triad, and Triangle — the overall ranking…
Flowery language aside, the Roy Cooper administration properly books its proposed tax changes as an increase in tax collections — of $392 million over the next two fiscal years.
A supporter and critic of North Carolina's partisan judicial elections agree lawmakers should limit continual tinkering.
Most studies show that, after adjusting for a range of control variables, states and localities with higher degrees of economic freedom — lower taxes, fewer regulations — have stronger economic performance.
The May 16 teacher gathering in Raleigh is inspired by teacher demonstrations in other states and is energized by the desire of public school advocacy groups to weaken Republican control of the General Assembly. It’s political mobilization disguised as a “rally for respect.” The N.C. Association of Educators has been…
