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Carolina economy adding few jobs
Whatever the explanation, our present reality is a growing NC economy with surprisingly anemic rate of net new jobs. Policymakers, please take note.
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Polluters need to be held accountable for NC water contamination
NC can establish enforceable limits for PFAS and 1,4-dioxane, require industries to eliminate these discharges at the source, and ensure the financial burden of cleanup falls where it belongs — on polluters, not the public.
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You’ll take our vouchers from our cold, dead hands
Making this program a target would be a major political mistake that would help nobody, and far more people would be up in arms than will be seen at the NCAE event on May 1.
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Federalist 16: Insufficiency of Present Confederation to Preserve Union cont..
It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.
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It’s time for a Right-to-Work Amendment
Carolina Journal surveys have consistently shown that roughly 64% of North Carolina voters support enshrining right-to-work protections.
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A mystery
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Our rights don’t stop at the gate. Neither do threats.
For too long, military bases have effectively been treated as so-called “gun-free zones.” But the reality is that these zones are often anything but safe.
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Speed boat?
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On affordability, deeds trump words
To make housing more affordable, we must build more of it. Expand supply to meet demand, and prices will adjust accordingly.
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AI isn’t the layoff story. It’s the cover story.
In the case of AI and layoffs, the reality is not that machines have suddenly replaced people, but that organizations are using new tools to accelerate changes that were already underway, which means the real question for policymakers is not how to stop that process, but how to ensure that the benefits of it are broadly shared, and the costs are not quietly shifted onto those least equipped to absorb them.
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Leandro author encourages all sides of NC education funding debate
Former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Burley Mitchell offers words of encouragement to both sides of the state's education funding divide.
