Opinion
Locals Put On A Happy Face
Kenosha, Wisconsin claims that its 2-mile streetcar line, at a cost of $5.2 million, is responsible for about $150 million in development. But its daily ridership is 100. Seem likely?
Opinion
Let’s Be Smart About Growth
North Carolina is a growing state. But that doesn’t constitute a justification for new fees, tax increases, or bonded debts — not when costs and priorities remain out of line.
Opinion
A look inside teacher pay
NEW YORK, NY — Education policy discussions often assume that public school teachers are poorly paid. Typically absent in these discussions is any reference to systematic data on how they are actually paid, especially relative to other occupations.
Opinion
The Horror: Discriminatory Advertising on the Internet
Modern technology exposes flaws in the arguments for "fair housing" rules.
Opinion
U.S consumers: corn-fed or force-fed?
Food or fuel? This is the decision that policy makers appear to be facing in light of the U.S. government's announced policy to increase use of ethanol as a replacement for petroleum-based fuel in the United States. The government's policy means devoting more and more domestic agricultural assets to the production of corn for conversion to ethanol. We should consider both the vulnerabilities and the trade-offs associated with this decision.
Opinion
What the Wake Schools Report Really Showed
Those who learned about a new report on Wake County's school buildings only from media reports got the impression that it proved Wake's costs were in line with comparable districts. But that's not what the data show.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
Last week, I wrote about the inability of federal, law-based education reform to fix what really ails our schools. Top-down legislative change, even when marked by good intentions, is inherently problematic.
Opinion
Standards allow Edwards’ bloggers a pass
The standards of journalism and of civilized society don’t allow general circulation newspapers or broadcast media outlets to convey the level of obscenity, malevolence and bigotry.
Opinion
How Much Is Your Property Worth?
Even if the public policies were correctly formed, government would end up paying less for land than its owners think the land is worth. That's an argument for minimizing takings.
Opinion
No. 937: Trucking South for Elections
Some analysts who track population shifts believe the gradual relocation of Northerners to the South and West means good things politically for Republicans in those destination states. I’m not so sure.
Opinion
No. 938: Skills College Grads Really Need
One of the phrases we hear over and over again from the American higher-education establishment is that it’s “the envy of the world.”
Opinion
MSM needs closure on cloture
If there was any doubt that the mainstream media is in the tank for Democrats, the coverage of the recent cloture vote on the various non-binding Iraq resolutions in the Senate certainly erased it.
