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The solar tax break NC should reconsider
Only solar energy systems receive a substantial property tax abatement, while other forms of energy production do not. A sound tax system should strive for neutrality, not selective advantage.
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Flashback: NC’s Easter Monday tradition forged on the baseball diamond
On Good Friday state offices were closed in North Carolina for Holy Week, along with 10 other states. However, that has not always been the case in North Carolina. The Monday after Easter — rather than Good Friday — was a legal holiday in North Carolina for 52 years, and for many years before by...
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Why the Halifax Resolves matter
On April 12, a large crowd of North Carolinians will gather in the town of Halifax to commemorate the 250th anniversary of a pivotal historical event. It was on April 12, 1776, that 83 delegates representing all 35 (at the time) counties plus nine municipalities affirmed what became known as the Halifax Resolves. They instructed...
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NCAE chooses activism over academics… again
This year, NCAE leadership appears to want participation in their protests to be sizable enough to force school boards across NC to cancel classes on May 1.
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Seeking a path between warehousing and enabling the troubled
America is alone among developed nations in allowing the kind of disorder being tolerated on Raleigh's Glenwood South, on the Charlotte transit system, and in countless other cities.
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Federalist No. 13: Advantage of Union in respect to economy in government
Nothing can be more evident than that the thirteen States will be able to support a national government better than one half, or one third, or any number less than the whole.
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Wade walks: Coaches always had freedom, NIL gives players theirs
While far from perfect, NIL aligns with a free-market ethos. This fleeting phase of life is precisely when all students, not just athletes, should learn that their effort creates opportunities, and that those opportunities can, in turn, yield real rewards.
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Why NC’s Blue Ribbon Commission must succeed
We’ve done the easy part: setting the wheels in motion; the true test is what it can deliver and how quickly we get to work on executing reforms.
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