Opinion
School funds should follow child
The core concept behind school-funding reform is unassailable: one-size-fits-all thinking is ill-suited to the complex and critical enterprise of educating young people.
Opinion
Debate over liquor reform in N.C was never about alcohol
The debate that led to the passage of Senate Bill 290 wasn’t about alcohol. I’ve written and said this many times, as have my colleagues at Carolina Journal and The John Locke Foundation. Certain lawmakers, the Chuck McGradys, Jon Hardisters, and Rick Gunns of the world, have said it, too. Over and over again. Finally,...
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Fair trade?
Opinion
Key N.C. regulatory reform advances with little fanfare
A new law will ensure most state government rules face new scrutiny or head to the scrap heap.
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Winner by unanimous decision
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Stones, glass houses, whatever
Opinion
Cooper has taken extreme positions
Heeding the most progressive Furies of his party, Cooper has put himself in a position of declaring that a popular vote of the people to enact voter ID is a violation of democratic principle.
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Swamp thing
Opinion
Taking partisanship out of the state redistricting battle
Whatever the three-judge Superior Court panel decides about Common Cause v. Lewis, a challenge to the constitutionality of North Carolina’s legislative districts, is relevant only if the plaintiffs win. That’s because we would get new legislative maps for 2020 elections — drawn to the liking of the state Democratic Party and left-leaning groups who sued the...
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Bipartisanship
Opinion
State censorship poses greatest risk
I have no confidence in the ability of lawmakers or regulators to keep their political preferences out of any oversight role they might assume in the content of online media.
Opinion
Americans must stay alert, heed lessons from rising stealth Corbynism
Brexit apoplexy, crippling fears about the future of the Union — the Scots are once again discussing independence — and a riven governing Conservative Party that is only in charge with the assistance of an obscure Northern Irish group. Having just returned from Britain, I can confirm the country is in a state of political...
