Opinion
States Change Medicaid By Necessity
Comprehensive reform inherently means disaggregating Medicaid into its constituent parts and addressing the unique challenges of each.
Opinion
Letting Freedom Work Its Magic
There's no reason to believe increased government interference will improve education and health care in North Carolina.
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Wrong Tools For The Job
Going into Tuesday night’s debate with Pat McCrory, Bev Perdue needed to bring a ladder. Instead, she brought a shovel.
Opinion
Sign Of Things Out of Whack
In Asheville, the priorities are way out of whack. Case in point: the machinations of the city’s sign police.
Opinion
Two Win-Win Policy Ideas
There are a number of specific areas where free-market conservatives and environmentalists can and do work together to improve public-policy outcomes.
Opinion
Competition works in religion and the press, why not in health care and education?
There’s no reason to believe the government can do the best job promoting our health and teaching our kids.
Opinion
A Correct, Irrelevant Court Decision
If the goal is to guarantee a certain minimum level of state funding for public schools, a provision earmarking fines doesn’t accomplish it.
Opinion
Lead, Follow, And The Other Thing
Of the 10 most-traveled bridges in the state, three of them are deficient or obsolete, all along I-40.
Opinion
Can Consumers Make Gas Prices Fall?
Straight-line forecasting can lead to errors in gauging the future price of fuel.
Opinion
The State’s Insane Insurance System
North Carolinians make up 3 percent of American motorists. But they account for 60 percent of all U.S. motorists who can’t buy auto insurance on the open market.
Opinion
If You Want the World to Be Your Oyster
Why has the air in Beijing, China been so dirty and polluted that, just days before the Summer Olympics were set to begin, athletes worried about the need to wear air filtration masks to protect their health? Hint: China is very much a command-and-control (read: communist-model) country. As one observer noted "...the people exist for the benefit of the government."
Opinion
The Phony And His Groupie
None of North Carolina’s political standouts rose as far as fast. None has fallen so spectacularly.
