Opinion
Stop Digging The Debt Hole
I know that Gov. Beverly Perdue and incoming Senate Majority Leader Martin Nesbitt are intelligent individuals. I don’t know why they continue to advocate foolish ideas.
Opinion
Alvin, Simon, and Theodore Explain Student Spending
RALEIGH -- Does North Carolina's method of funding public schools favor wealthy counties at the expense of poor ones? The facts suggest otherwise.
Cartoon
Strings Attached
Opinion
Setting Borders On Arts Funding
Max Borders has written such an interesting and well-reasoned study of the School of the Arts that I refuse to tell you anything more about it.
Cartoon
Meltdown
Opinion
Another Judicial Dead End
Remember all the talk about the Leandro case revolutionizing public education in North Carolina? Well, it obviously hasn’t.
Cartoon
Global Scam
Opinion
Health Bill’s Faulty Price Tag
Anyone who believes that ObamaCare will actually cut the federal budget deficit over 10 years is indulging a dangerous fantasy.
Cartoon
Thanksgiving
Opinion
No More Self-Inflicted Wounds
Wage floors, such as the Davis-Bacon Act, are special-interest legislation that benefit some organized groups at the expense of less-organized groups.
Opinion
The Cult of the Next Big Thing
RALEIGH -- You can call it the Cult of the Next Big Thing, the belief that the key to transforming the economy of most any place is a single, massive project. The economic development equivalent, if you will, of a game-winning grand slam in the bottom of the ninth. And yet, these deals are typically something so simple that they can be reduced to a single word or phrase.
Opinion
What A University Is Not
RALEIGH — This year, 2009, has been an annus horribilis for the University of North Carolina system. Permanent budgets have been cut in the range of 6 to 10 percent and many activities frozen.
