The legislature says the 2003-04 budget deficit will approach $2 billion. Gov. Easley says it will be less than $1 billion. The difference isn’t a rounding error, it’s a difference in political incentive.
There were several allegations of chicanery in North Carolina’s 2002 election cycle, but today’s subject is a strange case down in Fayetteville where a duly appointed elections official had his ruling trumped by an Election-Day injunction. What happened?
By next June the nation's highest court could finally issue a much-needed clarification of the constitutionality of using racial considerations in college admissions decisions. The Supreme Court took up two cases in which white applicants argued that their applications to the University of Michigan and its law school were turned down because of their race.
North Carolina politicians are fretting about big state and local budget gaps and a supposedly “inadequate” stream of tax revenue. Here are several reasons why the political class shouldn’t be taken seriously on fiscal policy.
Gov. Easley’s tax-reform commission has spoken, and there are some good ideas to consider. But making future tax reductions temporary, via rebates, isn’t one of them. Producers and consumers crave more certainty, not less.
Journalists are under the mistaken notion that the First Amendment gives them rights and prerogatives not provided to Microsoft, GE, GM, and their executives. But free speech applies to everyone, not that campaign finance reformers care.
After Sen. John Kerry announced with unadulterated liberal panache his presidential plans on “Meet the Press,” the way got a little clearer for our own, ideologically vague senator.
Selections include: "Wreck the malls," "Go, blow it out your eardrum," "I saw Commies taxing Santa Claus," "Grandma got run over by a tax hike," and many more!
Cleaning up the research pile meant stumbling on several ideas that never became full-fledged columns. So here are some nuggets for your sampling on capital gains taxes, welfare reform, teacher certification, and Dumb Growth.
The diversity movement continues apace in North Carolina higher education. Universities continue to expend resources in pursuit of diversity, a term generally used to refer to having an appropriate mix of students and faculty of different races, genders, and sexual preferences, as well as course offerings tailored to that mix.
So much of staying healthy and sane is worrying about what’s important, and not sweating the small stuff. It makes sense to worry about, say, getting enough exercise since exercising regularly can greatly improve one’s quality of life. Most rules for maintaining a healthy life are quite simple.
