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State Economy Sets Brisk Pace
North Carolina's better-than-average performance means that tens of thousands of state residents have jobs they wouldn’t otherwise have.
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Award-winning lineup
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N.C. Teacher Imports and Exports
North Carolina continues to enjoy a "teacher trade surplus," though recent data raise some red flags.
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Health Freedom Despite Obamacare
The following editorial appeared in the April 2016 print edition of Carolina Journal: As Dan Way reported recently at CarolinaJournal.com, any celebrations for the sixth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, were muted. With health care spending growing at its fastest rate since 2007, Obamacare has made health insurance anything but affordable. And...
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Build It, Even If They Won’t Come
Subsidizing stadium construction generally is a bad idea. Even worse is spending public money on sports facilities for teams that may never come to town.
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Entourage
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Terror tango
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Turnout Defies Liberal Forecasts
Voter turnout after the 2013 enactment of North Carolina’s election reforms has been at or above previous levels.
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The Real Cost of Buying Land
A recent Asheville story reminds us that government should leave most business decisions to businesses.
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Campaign dispatch, March 28, 2016
• Freshman Rep. Alma Adams, D-12th District, again will get a boost from EMILY’s List, the fundraising arm of pro-choice advocacy groups. The group and its political action committee provided roughly $300,000 for Adams’ successful 2014 campaign. • Greensboro’s Adams may need the help; she’ll have to fend off at least six primary challengers AND...
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