WASHINGTON, DC — The states' slow progress to meet NCLB demands has most governors thinking about how to improve failing school districts. Providing Quality Choice Options in Education, co-authored by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, cites choice.
As the horrifying events of Katrina unfold, North Carolinians should resist the impulse to panic — either about what we can and can’t do to help or about the effects of shortages on local gas prices.
Wrong-headed fear-mongering and price hysteria are counterproductive and harmful, no matter what the price of gas. But markets consist of both supply and demand, and prices are the result of market forces.
Listening to The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis might have seemed like a fitting background track during Tuesday's lottery vote in Raleigh, but the possibility remains of a legal challenge on constitutional grounds.
Hold on to your wallets: Lady Luck will soon be tempting the self-restraint of North Carolinians around the state. Legislation creating a state lottery passed on Tuesday, and was quickly signed into law by Governor Easley yesterday.
The North Carolina Senate has cleared the way for a state-run lottery. It happened either because a Republican politician misled his colleagues and the public — or because a Democratic one did.
FAYETTEVILLE, AR — Everything you know about education policy is wrong. That's the message of Manhattan Institute scholar Jay Greene, whose new book, "Education Myths," is a kind of "freakonomics" for the education set. These myths include funding, class size, and performance.
The Innovations in American Government Program is a significant force in recognizing and promoting excellence and creativity in the public sector. Through its annual awards competition, the Program provides concrete evidence that government can work to improve the quality of life for citizens and that it deserves greater public trust.
A new state law on chiropractors interferes with the right to contract, forces insurers retroactively to pay for services, and was enacted improperly by legislators in the budget bill. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln . . .
Can socialism and capitalism coexist peacefully in the same economy? Friedrich Hayek argued not, and in The Road To Serfdom he described why central planning and free markets are fundamentally at odds. For this insight, Hayek was a shared recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics.
The president of Old Salem just resigned, calling into question some of the most sweeping assertions of those pushing for more tax dollars to be spent on North Carolina’s “heritage tourism.”
