Charlotte’s housing market will continue to see expanded growth in conjunction with growth across other sectors, while homeowners with low interest rates may be hesitant to sell, making inventory tighter.
The Tar Heel state is third best in the nation for the growth of public charter schools during the pandemic, trailing only Texas and Florida, according to a new report by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Nationwide, charter schools have gained more than 300,000 students since the 2019-2020 school year, while traditional public schools have...
Americans are upset. Some are just mildly unhappy, others seem miserable, many are plain mad. A NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll reports that more than half have believed the country is “on the wrong track” in every month since February 2005. A Pew survey reveals most of us have been “dissatisfied” with the way things are...
State-level policy decisions are setting the stage for renewed economic opportunity and growth.
Some may be surprised to learn that North Carolina’s growth rate is actually down a bit from what it was in the 1990s.
North Carolina is a growing state. But that doesn’t constitute a justification for new fees, tax increases, or bonded debts — not when costs and priorities remain out of line.
Intel founder Gordon Moore coined a phrase in 1965 known as Moore’s Law, which essentially stated that computer power, or speed, doubled about every year.
There are many politicians and political activists in North Carolina who say that they favor impact fees to fund school construction because they want growth to pay for itself. They do not mean what they say.
Many local politicians and civic boosters insist that more taxes are needed to build the assets required to attract growth and that more growth means more need for tax money. Do they see where this is going?
Just about everything you think you know about the negative consequences of "sprawl" is wrong. And now, here's another wrinkle: the alternative, "New Urbanism," promotes crime.
There's apparently too much growth in Charlotte and too little growth in Greensboro. Fortunately, we have a Goldilocks Government who can get things just right for us.
