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About holidays, families, and country
My oldest daughter is a single mom to three and a successful engineer in a top company. She understands the power of education and is fighting for the best opportunities for her children. My son and his wife, parents to my other two grandchildren, are conservationists, and we argue about the appropriate level of government intervention to protect the environment. I was...
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Hello, Pot? Kettle here
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Boosting UNC ideological diversity requires the right leader
The university system's Board of Governors needs to remember a Reagan administration mantra: Personnel is policy.
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The HR elf
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Tax reform merits two cheers
During the coming decade, the federal government is expected to spend about $53 trillion and take in $43 trillion. Passage of tax reform would make that latter number more like $41.6 trillion.
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The Big Cat (allegedly) misbehaved; will N.C. taxpayers get the tab?
Almost as shocking as the allegations of sexual and racial misconduct about Carolina Panthers’ owner Jerry Richardson published Friday was the news Sunday night that the founding owner of the NFL franchise would sell it at season’s end. The club also announced Monday Richardson immediately would surrender daily management responsibilities. The initial buzz centered on who might...
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Get your alphabet agencies straight
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Discount double-check?
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It’s too hard to fly right
In a less regulated environment, North Carolinians who’ve made mistakes in their past but are now trying to straighten up and fly right would have the opportunity to prove themselves.
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N.C. State making little effort to promote viewpoint heterogeneity
Like just about every university and college these days, mine — N.C. State University — spends millions each year on a sprawling bureaucracy advocating racial, gender, and other types of “cultural” diversity. A university should be a marketplace of ideas to be discovered, understood, analyzed, and debated. Students and research produced should be rigorous, judicious, and worldly. A public...
