Opinion
A Tax-Increase Budget
The House is preparing for a final vote this week on its version of a 2004-05 state budget. As was also true with the governor's original plan, this is a tax-increase budget.
Opinion
No. 760: Kerry Panders for College Students’ Votes
Sen. John Kerry promised college students the moon just like he has done with other special-interest groups.
Opinion
Can We Survive a PSA Ban?
Rep. Cary Allred has the temerity to suggest that politicians be banned from appearing in all public-service announcements using public dollars. How would we survive?
Opinion
No. 759: Is It Time to Change How We Pay for College?
Financial plan would allow students to go to college and repay a percentage of the cost after they graduate from college.
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No. 758: Is America Ready for Kerry and Teddy?
Guess who's at the wheel of John Kerry's campaign? Why, it's the cowardly Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Opinion
End It, Don’t Bend It
A new voluntary system for public financing of judicial campaigns has already proven to be inadequate. Some want to force voters to fund campaigns. The real answer is repeal.
Opinion
No. 146:Genius Denied: Bright Students Fall Through the Cracks
The egalitarians' approach to education wastes the minds of America's most-gifted students.
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Reality Check on Budget “Cuts”
Which state has plowed huge sums of tax money into expanded health and human services programs in the past decade? North Carolina, of course, though you'd never know it.
Opinion
Down with Technocracy
UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi seems to have suffered a setback in his plans for a new Iraqi regime of "technocrats." Good. Here in North Carolina, we need to learn a similar lesson.
Opinion
What Do Test Scores Really Mean in NC?
It’s the time of year again for end-of-grade and end-of-course test scores to be released. If history repeats itself, educators will be patting themselves on the back. Remember last year? About 94 percent of schools received bonuses for achievement on North Carolina tests.
Opinion
A Productive Discussion
Economist Bruce Bartlett just took note of a new report on productivity gains. As usual, he's paying attention to important trends while others whine and wring their hands.
Opinion
On Long, Floppy Earmarks
It looks as though a legislative plan to tax pet food to fund spaying and neutering programs isn't going to move in Raleigh this year. That'll do, legislature. That'll do.
