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Labor participation is falling again

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics just released its latest jobs report for North Carolina and the rest of the country. As usual, the report contained a mixture of good news and bad. First the good. Our headline unemployment rate of 3.8% isn’t just low. It’s much lower than our 5.3% average rate over the...

John Hood
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Three years in, Cooper, Stein, Earls still fighting for soft-on-crime policies

In January of this year, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls spoke glowingly of her work on the state’s Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice. Along with Attorney General Josh Stein, Earls is the co-chair of the task force, created in the summer of 2020 by Gov. Roy Cooper.  According to the task...

Dallas Woodhouse

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Detrans movement reveals how medical community and activists prey on vulnerable

March 12 was Detrans Awareness Day, a date that provides an opportunity for those who fell victim to the cruel ploy of youth medical transitioning to educate others. Many victims of transitioning have been separated from their families, had their healthy bodies permanently mutilated, and seen their mental health ignored and further devastated. Voices of...

Laura Macklem
Opinion

Partisan elections are the best kind

When I returned home to North Carolina from the nation’s capital in 1989 and subsequently registered to vote, I opted not to join a political party. Although my conservative views were already well-established — and publicly on display in the syndicated newspaper column I’d created three years earlier — I considered it inappropriate for a...

John Hood
Opinion

Let’s build more housing

The American dream of owning a home is falling out of reach for many in our state. Home prices continue to rise in North Carolina as we lag pre-recession levels of new construction. Simultaneously, our state welcomed over 100,000 new residents just last year. Both current residents and newcomers to North Carolina will face hardships...

Jordan Roberts
Opinion

Outrageous story of the week: Whistleblower says Bank of America gave customer gun data to FBI

This week, news emerged of a behind-closed-doors February interview of retired FBI National Security Intelligence supervisor George Hill by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. One North Carolina congressman., Rep. Dan Bishop, R-NC-8, sits on the committee and has been very vocal about weaponization of federal bureaucracies...

David Larson