Opinion
No. 897: The Biggest Ethics Scandal
North Carolina's subsizing of appellate-judge campaigns is unethical and a violation of the First Amendment.
Opinion
No. 898: Senate Immigration Reform Bill Forfeits National Sovereignty
The U.S. Senate and Bush's immigration "reform" would destroy the sovereignty of our nation.
Opinion
Do we need a larger UNC system?
Politics should yield to practicality in the debate over a university's fate.
Opinion
Plans are Laid for Medicaid
Two of the most-watched experiments in Medicaid reform are about to begin. North Carolina policymakers should be watching closely.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
The concept of school choice has long elicited knee-jerk opposition from the education establishment, making legal and political skirmishes inevitable. Yet in several areas of the country, a relatively new kind of choice program is quietly and steadily making inroads into our public education bureaucracy.
Opinion
Consumer Preferences Should Triumph
Try as they might, politicians don’t get to change human nature. That doesn’t stop them from trying mightily to do so. Take Smart Growth, for instance — but not very far.
Opinion
More Embarrassing Education News
Shameful. That’s the only apt term to describe the state of North Carolina’s “accountability” system for public schools.
Opinion
The politics of charter schools
NEW YORK, NY — In this fascinating look at the complex world of local and state-level politicking over charter schools, the author argues that the war for charters will be won not by high-power Washington-types in suits, but by the rag-tag local advocacy groups.
Opinion
The End of the World
If you want to shore up a faulty argument, claim that calamity is just around the corner.
Opinion
Water, Gold, and Black Gold
Water and gasoline aren't substitutes in refreshment, thirst-quenching ability, or industrial use. There are a few market comparisons that may be worthwhile, though. Due to the effects of weather and politics, both are more scarce. And on the demand side, use of both water and gasoline usually rise each summer. Most of us feel lucky that compared with gasoline, water is still plenty cheap. We might be better off if it weren’t.
Opinion
One Cheer for Temporary Tax Relief
Language matters. Political debates often stay within contours defined by the words politicians and the news media employ.
Opinion
Planning Penalty
Homebuyers in two North Carolina cities pay thousands of dollars in extra costs, thanks to aggressive growth management plans. That's the key finding in a new Policy Report from the John Locke Foundation.
