This time of year, most people are getting ready to celebrate the Christmas holiday season. All the joys and happiness of family gatherings and celebrating a hopefully-better new year. Unfortunately, the Wake County family of a Southeast Raleigh High School student, Devin Ferrell, will not be celebrating this holiday season; they will instead be celebrating...
Former President Donald Trump has proposed an across-the-board tariff tax of 10% on all imports. How would such an increase in protectionist central planning affect our economy? Barry Goodwin suspects it would be disastrous. A William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University, Goodwin wrote in a recent...
The Parents’ Bill of Rights ushered in reasonable and necessary requirements for public schools to, among other things, ensure parental involvement. And now the stage is set for the NC Court of Appeals to protect parents’ rights in North Carolina’s private schools, as well. With the recent expansion by the General Assembly of the Opportunity...
State legislative leaders hope the North Carolina Supreme Court's earliest decisions in a long-running education funding dispute will guide its upcoming actions.
George Orwell’s name, to me, evokes memories of 10th grade as I sat, uncomfortably, in a small wooden desk on the second floor of my un-airconditioned high school in a rural farming town in eastern North Carolina, about as far away from dystopia as one could imagine. Maria — whose curly blond hair and mischievous,...
Now that the Christmas shopping season has begun in earnest, we are about to witness the ritualistic burning of a straw man. Call it one of many pagan-inspired traditions of the season. Just watch: some sly journalist or humorless scold will assert that the exchange of Christmas gifts is a lose-lose for our economy. The...
As the year draws to a close and the holiday season envelops us in its festive glow, I’m reminded of Charles Dickens’s timeless sentiment from A Christmas Carol: “I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women seem by one consent to open their...
