The law school is going to fight poverty, and its long, extensive director's search selected Edwards, and everyone agrees it's not about politics at all. They promise, even.
There's lots of talk in Raleigh about gas taxes, car taxes, cigarette taxes, and sales tax. The simple fact of the matter is that North Carolinians keep too much of their own money.
North Carolina is missing the boat on how to alleviate traffic congestion — particularly if we use a nautical analogy, rather than a landlubber’s, to describe the potential effects of the Internet.
Among the many myths that persist when disaster strikes is the one that the consequences of the disaster will wind up being a blessing in disguise. Frederic Bastiat captured the essence of this idea in his 1850 essay, "That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen," perhaps better known as the Parable of the Broken Window, or the broken window fallacy.
The state constitution authorizes the legislature to set up a legal process for resolving contested state elections. Now senators are talking about doing it -- retroactively.
The Microelectronics Center of NC got a quarter-billion in tax dollars, made a few insiders wealthy, and then teetered on the edge of insolvency. This is a success of government-funded business?
It was only a matter of time before existing North Carolina businesses took our government to court for subsidizing their competitors. They suffer real harms from the practice.
Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America debunks the media's hyperbole about America being a divided nation.
Raise your hand if you watch TV. Keep it up. OK, now raise your hand if you watch "Dawson's Creek" or "One Tree Hill," especially because they were filmed in North Carolina. And finally, raise your other hand (if you have any left) if you know that the producers of "One Tree Hill" are threatening to leave the state.
Health-care costs might be rising, but consumers are getting better care more frequently, thereby increasing demand.
President Bush came to Raleigh Thursday and was greeted by the same old arguments from the same old, misguided folks about his Social Security ideas. Some things don't get better with age.
