Opinion
No. 835: U.S. History Is Becoming History
Parents need to make a concerted effort to rescue factual U.S. history from the make-believe history taught today by revisionists.
Opinion
A Revealing Set of Numbers
North Carolinians aren't happy with the direction of their state, and a group of them are preparing to rally Wednesday to make their voices heard. Here's part of the reason why.
Opinion
No. 834: Finding Pieces to the Education Puzzle
The ever-escalating costs of education require that counties use vision and innovation to find new sources of revenue.
Opinion
On World-Class Chumps
Charlotte, like many other American cities, will soon see a new sports arena completed. But the Carolina Bobcats project is distinctive -- and not in a good way.
Opinion
The Magical Means to Keep the Kingdom Clean
Streets clean enough to eat off of? Not quite, but close. Trashcans are strategically placed, but no more so than in an ordinary city. Hundreds of thousands of people travel the streets of Disney World, generating tons of trash daily. But why no litter, no food debris, no castaway diapers, on these city streets?
Opinion
Refresher Course in Mind & Market
Jerry Muller's book The Mind and the Market is an excellent way to take a guided tour through all that European philosophy, economics, and social criticism you used to know about from college.
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Getting Better, But Not for Taxpayers
State revenues are coming in above expectations, we are told, so obviously the proper response is to raise taxes again. Hey, wait a minute. . .
Opinion
No. 833: Stop the onslaught of economic scams
Instead of encouraging “economic development,” recent deals in North Carolina reveal how the culture of corporate entitlement could foster corruption in North Carolina.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
The aversion of our educational GOMs (Gatekeepers of Mediocrity) to any sort of progress, however small or incremental, never ceases to amaze me. Several weeks ago, I alerted you to an important piece of legislation, Senate Bill 490, The Charter Schools Managed Growth Act, which needed to be considered within two weeks to stay viable.
Opinion
[Don’t] Book ’Em on the Flight, Danno
Some county commissioners are going off to Hawaii on the taxpayers’ dime. Others were planning to go, but backed out. The media coverage is copious.
Opinion
Luger Not Loaded This Go Round
The NC Department of Commerce chose not to retain a UNC-Chapel Hill professor to evaluate its main tax-incentives program. Surely this had nothing to do with managing the state’s PR.
Opinion
On Makers, Mormons, & Catching Mitt
There were three oddly timed reasons to dig out a long-forgotten copy of the Book of Mormon last week. Two of them involve presidential politics.
