Opinion
Take My Government Hand-Out — Please!
It's a distressingly familiar story: government benefits that go unspent because the pitiful people who deserve them just can't bring themselves to apply.
Opinion
This Time Around, The Referenda Rule
With many municipal elections scheduled for Tuesday, perhaps the most interesting outcomes won't involve candidates at all.
Opinion
October’s Panoply of Political Portents
October is turning out to be a month chock-full of political portents. You should keep your eye on a number of outcomes and news items that offer some insight into the direction of our political debate.
Opinion
No. 695: UNC Schools Don’t Deliver on Promise of Strong General Education
Suppose that you have dropped your son or daughter off at one of the campuses of the University of North Carolina system. You have plenty to worry about: housing, roommates, clothing, money, and so forth. It’s quite a load. At the risk of further depressing you, there’s one more thing that you should be worrying about — the college curriculum.
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“Guess the Blather”™ contest winners
See who had the best and funniest guesses concerning the content of UNC-CH Chancellor Moeser's "State of the University" address.
Opinion
Education Options Offer Hope To All
RALEIGH — It’s amazing how foolishness has trumped common sense in government — again!
Opinion
NC Tax Challenged in Court — Again
Following through on a threat, two satellite TV firms are suing North Carolina to stop collection of a new sales tax they say is unconstitutional. They may be right.
Opinion
More on the Jobless Front
A new study finds poor spending controls in the nation's unemployment insuranessnce system, wasting billions of dollars taxed from worker wages.
Opinion
On Politicians and Natural Disasters
With effusive praise breaking out all over for state politicians' response to Hurricane Isabel, it's time to recall past crises -- and the resulting political handiwork.
Opinion
No. 706: Forget Reform: Politics Corrupts Money
On Sept. 8, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the heated battle over campaign finance reform legislation — the so-called Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. I won’t offer any prediction as to how the court will rule. But I will offer some thoughts on how the court ought to rule. It ought to declare the BCRA unconstitutional and should do so in language that doesn’t encourage Congress to go back to the drawing board.
Opinion
No. 130: Pieces of Eight: Monetary Policy and U.S. Constitution
Edwin Vieira, Jr.'s Pieces of Eight is an indispensable work for anyone who believes in upholding the U.S. Constitution.
Opinion
How Bush Gets Beat in
A new North Carolina poll shows what the national ones do: Bush's numbers are falling. The competitive 2004 election cycle could go either way.
