Opinion
Legends of the Indigent Left
Left-wing donors are pledging more than $80 million to create or expand think tanks and advocacy groups to combat the "potent conservative infrastructure.” Misunderstandings abound.
Opinion
GRE scores for School Administrators
LENOIR — Mean Verbal - 429, Mean Quantitative - 520, Total - 949: These are the mean Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores of applicants for graduate study in Education Administration tested between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2003.
Opinion
A Bad Bill Made Worse
A negative times a negative might yield a positive number in multiplication, but the legislative process works rather differently — as is evident in a bad tax-credit bill that’s just gotten worse.
Opinion
Overdue Budget Demonstrates Flaws
It's not hard to imagine potential resolutions to the differences between the NC House and Senate versions of a 2005-07 state budget. The reason the deal hasn't been struck yet is that there was no rule requiring it.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
On July 14th, the U.S. Department of Education released the latest edition of the "Nation's Report Card," otherwise known as the 2004-2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Everyone, including Secretary Spelling, hailed growth trends for younger students, and rightly so: 9-year-olds posted their best reading and math scores in the report's 30-year history. American teenagers, on the other hand, did not fare so well: reading and math scores for 17-year-olds stayed low.
Opinion
It’s Not A Tax Hike — Really
Dozens of North Carolina counties are being knocked by fiscal conservatives for raising property taxes this year. But not all deserve the criticism — given that it wrongly demands a “revenue-neutral” rate after revaluations.
Opinion
Is We Is Or Is We Isn’t
The Barbed Wire Choir said it best, even if they didn't say it first: give us criminals—we need the prison jobs. Prisons, and by implication crime, can be desirable engines of economic growth, according to some. And now, Governor Easley has gotten into the prison act.
Opinion
No. 847: The John Roberts I Remember
A boyhood schoolmate of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts remembers a model student and caring person
Opinion
No. 846: America is “Grateful to Almighty God”
Despite what liberals want to hear, America is a "nation under God," as shown in constitutitions from state to state.
Opinion
Death Should Not Be Taxable
Part of the 2005-07 budget plan currently being hammered out in the General Assembly would reimpose a costly estate tax. North Carolina would be better off if death were no longer a taxable event here.
Opinion
Hooray for Aussies, Danes & Dutch
The fight for freedom extends across a variety of places and issues — including education. A new book examines the international experience with parental choice of schools, without coming to a single conclusion.
Opinion
Getting the Drift & Short Shrift
The state-budget talks continue in Raleigh, math errors lead to calls for more government, teachers call for higher taxes. The sweltering heat isn’t the only bad news for taxpayers this week.
