A Duke University professor of environmental science has reinvigorated the national debate over grade inflation. Professor Stuart Rojstaczer announced a web site, GradeInflation.com, wherein he has compiled data on over 50 colleges and universities nationwide showing how average grade-point-averages at them over time have risen. Rojstaczer also announced his findings in a Jan. 28 Washington Post column.
A co-speakership has arrived in the North Carolina House, and the fun has only just begun. Here are some things to look out for as the details of the power-sharing deal come to light.
So far, the House speaker squabble hasn’t yielded a leader for the chamber. But in attempting to buck the will of voters, Jim Black has damaged his reputation, regardless of the outcome.
The Bush administration presented a 2003-04 budget that, among other things, cuts funding for the Appalachian Regional Commission. Some NC politicians may want to fight this. They shouldn’t.
Some thoughts on the weekend's horrifying events.
The North Carolina House spent its first two days of the 2003 session doing absolutely nothing other than arguing, so far pointlessly, about who will be in charge. So what’s wrong with that?
The news last fall of sweetheart deals to exiting administrators of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill placed the institution under unsettling scrutiny of its priorities. Those deals amounted to $520,000 plus travel expenses to two former vice chancellors, Susan H. Ehringhaus and Susan T. Kitchen. They came to light after other UNC-CH officials had spent months making the university’s case against any more budget cuts affecting them, on the basis that the university had nowhere left to cut.
Down at the legislature, folks were pointing fingers Wednesday at Jim Black, Leo Daughtry, and Richard Morgan for creating a frustrating standoff. But the real culprit sits farther back in the chamber.
Carolina Journal’s Richard Wagner reports that a national survey shows widespread dissatisfaction with journalists.
In his State of the Union Address, President Bush put forward an ambitious agenda of free-market reforms, including welcome tax relief and a continued push for individual control of Medicare and Social Security.
Stoking the fires of racial hatred and class warfare is not a wise thing to do. Mississippi’s Sen. Trent Lott found out the hard way. Liberals, on the other hand, continue to stir gasoline into the melting pot without arousing nary a whimper of objection.
