Suppose you are about to graduate from a North Carolina high school. Your grades are good but not great, and your primary goal after graduation is to get the schooling you need for a fulfilling career with good earnings potential. Should you head off to university or enroll in your local community college? For many...
North Carolina Democrats are facing a brutal election that could see their worst results in more than a decade, according to the latest and last Civitas-John Locke Foundation poll of the 2022 election. The poll, released two weeks before Election Day, shows Republican Ted Budd pulling away with a four-point lead. The Trafalgar Group, also...
The skirts will grab the headlines, but there’s another piece of a court fight over a charter school dress code that deserves more attention. Operators of Brunswick County-based Charter Day School hope the U.S. Supreme Court will agree this fall to take up their case. They are appealing a June decision from the 4th U.S....
When news broke on October 13 that five individuals had been killed in their northeast Raleigh neighborhood by a teenaged gunman, I’m sure we all shared feelings of shock, horror, and concern for the victims’ families, friends, and neighbors. Shortly afterwards, many turned their thoughts from the tragedy itself to its potential implications for politics...
Biden tries to tackle his gas price problem by announcing sale of 15 million barrels from Strategic Petroleum Reserve Don’t fret, once the polls close President Biden will put our national security first again. Maybe? Hopefully? Maybe President Biden should try getting a competent energy policy for some actual long term solutions instead of playing...
North Carolina should be more like our nation’s capital. No, not because of being a swamp filled with lobbyists, bureaucrats, and career politicians. But instead, in terms of how we indulge in and regulate alcohol. Our federalist style of governance in the U.S. allows states, and districts, to act as “laboratories of democracy”—a state can...
The tragic death of five shooting victims in Raleigh should give us an extended pause. First, it should remind us of the immense value of life. For the ideologues, politics is and will remain the sole focus of the shooting. In fact, for many, frantic calls for gun control inevitably become the only solution. Yet,...
