Opinion
No. 778: Why Do Some Workers Earn a Lot?
Why do sports stars and movie stars get paid so much? It's a simple matter of competition and supply and demand.
Opinion
No. 777: Do the College Rankings Mean Anything?
The criteria used by U.S. News & World Report magazine in its ranking of universities leave the list meaningless.
Opinion
The State Gallops, Still Way Behind
New Census data provide more evidence of the severity of North Carolina's 2001-03 recession compared with the rest of the country. Only now is the recovery really galloping.
Opinion
This Land is Our Land
The Raleigh News & Observer is sounding the alarm about a commission to sell state-owned land. But they apparently have little concern about the state buying up private land.
Opinion
So, 20,000 Shoppers Can Be Wrong?
There are new reports purporting to show that charter schools aren’t delivering the goods. But in addition to technical issues, they suffer a more basic flaw: that of disregarding parental preferences.
Opinion
No. 152: World on Fire: Government Fails to Protect Society’s Scapegoats
Amy Chua's misguided World on Fire picks on capitalism for causing violence against oppressed people.
Opinion
Free Speech and Its Enemies
The current political culture is full of people trying to get other people to stop talking to voters. But America is a free society -- or perhaps the verb tense is incorrect.
Opinion
Cary Town Councilman Draws Line in the Sand on ETJ
ETJ's have been an issue of contention across the state of North Carolina for some time. In a press release, one town councilman declared that enough is enough: "There is a fundamental failing in the ETJ process, which does not allow those in the ETJ to appeal to the elected body that governs them as taxpaying citizens of an unincorporated area of Wake County." Due to this basic flaw in ETJ's, Councilman Joyce declared that "I can no longer in good conscience support my initial vote to request that such a large area of homes and neighborhoods in the southeast portion of Wake County be included in Cary's ETJ."
Opinion
On Wielding the Dark Side
Shocking as it may seem, North Carolina's free-market community does not always agree -- and there's no Sith Lord at the center to pull everyone's metaphorical strings.
Opinion
Benson, Chinese Thought, And A Dead Snake
In an odd coincidence, a presentation about the morality of war set up a confrontation of a more immediate sort. TV's "Benson" and ancient Chinese philosophers are involved.
Opinion
“But, Who Will Bell the Cat?”
Thomas E. Vass wonders who will be the one to finally reign in government.
Opinion
What Low Tuition Does Not Buy
An upcoming JLF briefing book reveals an important fact about North Carolina's high subsidies for UNC: they aren't boosting attainment much closer to the national average.
