Opinion
New Law Boosts Paperweight Pool
The law of unintended consequences plagues new voting machine standards.
Opinion
No. 881: Schools Can’t Use Poverty as an Excuse
A closer look at the data reveals little support for a link between economic integration policy and student performance.
Opinion
No. 882: GOP at a Crossroads
“Will Republicans truly embrace a reformer?” Is “big government conservatism” what the party of Reagan wants to stand for?
Opinion
On the Arts Museum Flap
The director of the North Carolina Museum of Art is paid for more than his state salary of about $100,000, thanks to a private foundation. This is a problem, but the solution is not to pay him less.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
Charter schools are the foster children of the public school “family.” Who will own them? As innovative, public schools, they certainly can’t claim kinship with the state’s private schools. And unlike their traditional public school siblings, they have no bureaucratic sugar daddy to safeguard their financial well-being.
Opinion
Roads, Forts & Following Rules
Whether one is a kid pretending to be a military engineer or a politician pretending to be a highway engineer, it is important to remember the rules.
Opinion
Fancy and Reality in Political Races
Democrats have been targeting three North Carolina congressional districts for takeover in 2006, but the most likely scenario is, once again, only a single competitive race.
Opinion
The effects of capping charter schools
WASHINGTON, DC — All told, 25 states plus the District of Columbia place some sort of arbitrary limits on charter school growth; in 10 states, according to National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, these caps are "severe constraints" on their ability to serve families."
Opinion
The Not-So-Worst Case Scenario
If North Carolina government is going to go into the gambling business, there are better ways to spend the money that class-size reduction and preschool programs.
Opinion
Why I Read the Mainstream Left
Left-leaning magazines challenge readers to re-examine their beliefs.
Opinion
A New Look at Transit
LOS ANGELES, CA — In the San Francisco Chronicle, Reason's Robert Poole details how San Francisco and other metro areas can benefit from a breakthrough transit solution being developed in Houston: "Instead of building exclusive busways, transportation officials there are developing the virtual equivalent of exclusive busways.
Opinion
The Public’s Interest in Lobbying Reform
The right to lobby government officials is protected by state and federal constitutions. But rules that require disclosure and distinguish lobbying from bribery are proper in a republican form of government.
