Plans for tax increases hide behind election-year rhetoric
You'll search in vain for a Democrat on the N.C. ballot who's as clear as Walter Mondale about raising your rates.
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Insurance mandate was never wise
Conservatives should hasten and formalize the transition of the insurance exchanges into high-risk pools, the policy Washington and the states should have pursued in the first place.
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Feminist activism masquerading as education
The supposedly academic discipline of women’s studies is “an arm of the women’s movement,” according to philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers. And that movement is political — political activism is at least as fundamental to women’s studies as its academic components. As it says in the National Women’s Studies Association’s…
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Judging the judge’s response
District Court Judge Pell Cooper of Rocky Mount thinks we got it wrong. We’ll let you, and others, decide. The judge, who’s the brother of Gov. Roy Cooper and has been on the bench since 1999, took issue with a recent Carolina Journal story by Don Carrington. It asserts…
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Average pay isn’t the right focus
In reality, teacher pay is inherently differentiated — but in North Carolina, the practice until recently was to differentiate in ways that didn’t serve students well.
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Voter ID measure would place N.C. squarely in electoral mainstream
North Carolina is surrounded by states that require voters to prove their identities at the polls.
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Why are you reading this?
If you yearn for a better political dialogue, reward those who deliver it with your time and money.
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Relating teacher pay to teacher performance
In May, about 19,000 North Carolina teachers gathered in Raleigh to “Rally for Respect,” an event organized by the N.C. Association of Educators. The choice of the word “respect” was important. It implied attendees felt disrespected. By whom? The Republican-led General Assembly, of course. You can select all sorts of statistics, but many…
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What to know about teens, nicotine, and ‘JUULing’
[Editor’s note: This column was updated after original publication to include recent data.] The latest device flooding schools resembles a flash drive but doesn’t store data. Its purpose: delivering a flavored nicotine hit. Called a JUUL, it’s a hipper iteration of the e-cigarette, which debuted a decade ago. Adolescents, who…
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Courts can’t resolve every dispute
North Carolina’s constitution clearly gives legislators some latitude when it comes to defining the powers of executive officers. Don’t like that? Amend the constitution.