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Don’t discount standard deduction’s impact
The federal tax plan includes a broad-based break that disproportionately helps those with lower incomes.
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Dial 9-1-1!
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Pay and train officers better
North Carolina's prison system needs to step up its adoption of modern management techniques and technologies to detect contraband, discern emerging conflicts, and deter inmate misbehavior.
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State gains more national influence
If current population trends continue, North Carolina will gain a bit more political heft after the 2020 census with the addition of a 14th seat in the U.S. House.
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We’ll be seeing lots of 2020 Democratic hopefuls in N.C.
As we move into 2018, speculation over who will emerge as the 2020 Democratic nominee for president will begin in earnest. In my view, the early front-runner is U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Independent socialist from Vermont. Coming seemingly out of nowhere in 2016, Sanders gave Hillary Clinton a run for her money for the...
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Grades, not tests, are the bellwether for college success
It’s a new year, launching another new and notoriously nerve-wracking season of college admissions testing. High school juniors are hoping they’ll dazzle admissions officers with their smarts, savvy, and content mastery, but what will their test scores really demonstrate? Does a high ACT or SAT score reveal readiness for college rigor, or does it merely...
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It’s all yours …
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Freedom is only one generation away from extinction
The sober realization is that socialism is still challenging freedom — even with the irrefutable mountain of evidence of its abject failure and toll on humans everywhere it has been tried. Thanks to John Locke, we have a roadmap for freedom and opportunity that any of us can follow. Socialism has crippled nations and impoverished...
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Bipartisan agreement!
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Tax ‘fairness’
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Groups out themselves on speech
A basic liberal understanding of the rights of free expression and free association would lead inevitably to the kind of policy that the UNC system just adopted.
