The city of Charlotte is about to have a new government-funded tourist attraction – the NASCAR Hall of Fame – but it won’t cost local residents any new taxes, say the city and county officials who favor the deal.
Wake Superior Court Judge Howdy Manning means well and is properly outraged by continued educational mediocrity. But his latest Leandro directive is blatant judicial activism.
The media traditionally have demonstrated a keen ability to sense blood and swarm toward it. American blood, that is. Instead of courageously standing up recently to the threats of radical Islam and printing a few innocuous cartoons, they went after Dick Cheney’s jugular.
The political culture in state capitals isn’t yet as poll-obsessed as the national political culture has become. A new comparisons of gubernatorial approval ratings is interesting, nonetheless.
Many Americans have heard of the Boston Tea Party of 1773. Far fewer can tell of the Edenton Tea Party of 1774—the first organized women’s political action in U.S. history.
The entire political machinery in North Carolina is rotten to the core. Sticking good people into a rotten corrupt system tends to produce corrupt politicians and corrupt legislation.
There is plenty of mocking and sneering in Raleigh these days over House Speaker Jim Black's present difficulties, which surround his questionable practice of handing out political favors concurrently with distributing blank $100 checks to legislative supporters. A lot of people are blaming it on "the system."
Decision makers confront an unlevel playing field in modern government.
CAMBRIDGE, MA — "The idea that there is a national shortage of qualified teachers is largely a myth," reports University of Missouri economist Michael Podgursky. Additional research shows that teachers’ pay is competitive with many other professions.
Get used to some familiar faces — not only on the big screen, in a year of movie sequels, but also in many 2006 legislative races featuring rematches.
Can one person change the course of history? Assuredly so: seminal events throughout our collective past illuminate the power of one life – lived well – to make a difference. What separates the wheat from the chaff? History’s most celebrated leaders are all defined by their unrelenting pursuit of excellence, whatever their chosen vocation.
