You blew it up … whatever …
Summer polls are flawed predictors
Swings of six percentage points or so between August and Election Day are entirely in keeping with the actual behavior of North Carolina’s electorate.
Extending unemployment benefits in N.C., and the president’s offer
President Trump signed a number of executive orders to circumvent a congressional impasse over another round of government relief and stimulus. Yuval Levin and Adam C. White provide a detailed critique of this return to Obama-era policymaking without regard to the constitutional issues. Their critique does not let Congress off the hook for the mess....
Under the bus
‘If I die in Raleigh, at least I will die free’: Well, not exactly
Ketch Secor of the energetic American roots band Old Crow Medicine Show and a few of his talented friends streamed a concert from the stage of the Grand Ole Opry this past weekend. In eloquent music parlance, they killed it. One song, “Wagon Wheel,” though overplayed and over covered — Darius Rucker remade it —...
Will it fit in the basement?
For those lucky enough to attend
Pols can’t be daydream believers
What if North Carolina doesn’t end up getting as much federal relief as expected for state and local government? What if it has lots of strings attached?
Education reformers can squeeze some good from COVID-19 lemons
Disruption linked to the coronavirus pandemic prompts new thinking about the way we teach our children.