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North Carolina thrives on trade
Levying tariffs to jack up steel prices will hurt other manufacturing firms, which employ vastly more North Carolinians (and other Americans) than the steel companies do.
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Kids these days
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Ignoring legal precedent helps fuel American cynicism
The attorney who won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court gun-rights ruling 10 years ago shares his concerns about the case's impact.
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The envelope, please
Opinion
Nearby successes don’t disprove conservatism
Do North Carolina progressives really want to point to the likes of deep-red South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida as economic models that rebut conservatism?
Opinion
Meeting our needs without taking on more government debt
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about local government debt. It all started when I was preparing for a presentation and took a look at the Wake County budget for this year. I nearly fell out of my chair. This year alone, Wake County’s budget includes just more than $273 million in debt service. To break that down a little bit,...
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Shameless
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Ensuring school and college work for career
The aspirational endgame of K-12 educators is producing “college and career-ready” students. Yet connections between school, college, and career remain tenuous. Many students are unprepared for college coursework because they don’t pursue a sufficiently rigorous high school curriculum. Once in college, they lack confidence that what they learn will benefit how and what they earn...
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Nothing to see here …
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Protecting our investments in North Carolina
Protecting our investments means taking care of what we own. As state taxpayers, we own a lot of stuff — office, school and university buildings, state agencies and department offices, courthouses, prisons, libraries, books … and lots of land. North Carolina owns 42 parks, a symphony orchestra, a zoo, and seven history and two art museums. North Carolina has assets worth billions, accumulated over...
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Government failure
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Taxes do have their benefits
Gas-powered vehicles offered a market-friendly device, gas and car taxes, for users to pay for the overall road network roughly according to their use.
