Partly as a result of legislative actions since 2001, North Carolina communities impose a relatively high tax burden on communications services.
Rep. Mary McAllister has lots of critics regarding her compensation as head of a state-funded nonprofit in Fayetteville.
In a free society, those who seek to engineer social change are hardly powerless. They just can’t resort to force or fisticuffs.
It's easy to find good examples of the positive power of the private sector.
Helping to stop immigration reform is precisely the opposite effect of what the recent demonstrators intended. But that's how things often work out.
How do we ensure poor students attain grade level proficiency? Increasingly, policymakers are latching on to class-size reduction as a cure-all, imbuing smaller classes with the power to eradicate intractable achievement gaps.
There is a fundamental conflict of visions in the debate about North Carolina’s transportation challenges. The opponents live in two different worlds.
It is a social cost, not a social gain, when marginally qualified students attend and later drop out of state-subsidized colleges.
NEW YORK, NY — The following report looks at the policy, political, and legal barriers that may limit the expansion of large-scale voucher programs. It concludes by suggesting that the movement may be offensive to the middleclass and suburban voters.
A new UNC hospital is still under construction but is already running $20 million over its $180 million budget. Someone’s got to pay – should smokers?
Government measurements offer helpful information only if the government chooses appropriate measures.
