At Alexander Paul Institute of Hair Design in Greenville, N.C., students are looking toward the future. Here they learn to cut, curl, and color hair, but also tend to customers and build their client base — all the skills they will need for a lucrative career in cosmetology and other personal services. Some 50 students launch a new...
Part one of a three-part series outlining an independent analysis of census data. Two of North Carolina’s most accomplished political consultants have crunched the latest census data and predict Republicans will have a strong political advantage in both chambers of the General Assembly. Note that this is not a Republican/conservative view of how districts can be...
North Carolina no longer ranks in the top half of states when it comes to the Second Amendment.
Published below are the full and unedited remarks of NC Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, on the threat to critical race theory to American society and its founding principles. Berger offered up the remarks on July 14. Certain Enlightenment Era concepts have defined American culture since our nation’s founding. Sometimes referred to as “classical liberalism,”...
North Carolina has over-collected more than $6 billion in state taxes when compared to May of 2020 economic forecasts. This according to data just presented to members of the Joint Full Chairs Appropriations Finance Committee by the nonpartisan Fiscal Research Division at the General Assembly and the Office of State Budget and Management, obtained by...
The judge in the ongoing Leandro school funding case has signed an order that attempts to compel the General Assembly to fund the components of the Comprehensive Remedial Plan agreed to by both the defendants and plaintiffs in the case last year. The move by Superior Court Judge David Lee appears to be a reversal...
Liquor sales in North Carolina, which are controlled by the state, grew 16.6% in April. That’s from the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association, a research group representing control states. Seventeen states control the sale of alcohol in some form, including on the wholesale, distribution, and retail levels. The level of control varies among states, though...
Elections should be free, fair, and regular. Those principles are the basic standard for making sure that governments reflect the will of the people. For that reason, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (which represents national legislatures worldwide) states in the first principle of its Declaration on Criteria for Free and Fair Elections that governments can derive authority...
No one wants to get into debt. Families don’t plan on a financial crisis upending their lives. Yet, life is not always fair, people don’t always make good decisions, investments go sour, and unexpected expenses crop up. When someone finds themselves in crisis, they need help; options to get out of trouble. That’s what debt...
We have reached a point in the debate over House Bill 358, the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” that indicates reason and scientific rigor are not being considered in the solution. Political desperation and desire are elevated above all else. To everyone’s disappointment, opponents of the bill are scraping the bottom of the barrel for arguments—which...
On April 5, 2021, The News & Observer published an opinion piece in opposition of girls sports at the middle and high school level being exlusively for biological females. The piece was written by Doriane Coleman, Juniper Eastwood, and Martina Navratilova. The authors expressed dissatisfaction with H.B. 358, claiming that the bill goes “beyond what is...
