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PARODY FLASHBACK: ACC plans move to Bristol, Conn., as response to H.B. 2
Editor’s note: With the announcement that the NCAA will move seven national championship events from North Carolina because House Bill 2 remains part of state law, and the Atlantic Coast Conference considering its own response, we chose to repeat an eerily prescient parody from the August 2016 print edition of Carolina Journal. Vowing not to be outmaneuvered by...
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State ranks high in restraint
Every dollar “sent” to North Carolina from Washington, for expanding Medicaid or building roads or anything else, is either collected first from North Carolinians or borrowed.
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Cleanup, Aisle 5
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Triggers help move tax reform forward
Setting revenue targets helps limit politicians' uncertainty about the impact of growth-enhancing tax changes.
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Deplorable
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Voters never will be experts
What if we don’t like the outcomes produced by our prisons, public health agencies, or public schools? It’s impossible or highly expensive to “take our business elsewhere.”
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Do no harm?
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Misleading statistic fuels early-voting dispute
There's no good reason to rely on a standard of voters per hour when setting early-voting schedules.
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Debates about school funding miss the point
The mainstream media and pundits on both sides of the aisle focus an extraordinary amount of time and energy examining public school funding. It is not surprising that they do. Surveys suggest that most Americans believe that public schools should receive more taxpayer money. According to the left-leaning PDK/Gallup Poll, “Lack of financial support for...
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Grab the masks
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Most in N.C. will have one Obamacare option in 2017
The troubled federal law continues to compile a growing list of casualties.
