Community leaders fear the limitations put in place by regulators, and the slow-walking of advanced small modular reactors (SMR) deployment, will cause North Carolina communities to miss out on homegrown and imported growth, specifically due to a lack of reliable energy resources.
On Wednesday, the North Carolina House passed a bill to ban China and other foreign adversaries from purchasing N.C. agricultural land and property within 25 miles of the state's military bases.
North Carolina public schools are some of the worst-funded schools in the country and will need more money to adequately and fairly fund our schools in the future. That’s the conclusion of a well-publicized recent study from the Education Law Center — a study that is frequently referenced by progressive teacher groups, Democrat politicians, and others...
Now that the dust has settled from Kevin McCarthy's speaker election, second-term congressman from the Charlotte area Dan Bishop may have played the most significant role. After voting "nay" on McCarthy's speakership for 11 cycles, Bishop changed to an "aye" on the promise of a new committee investigating the activities of federal intelligence agencies like the FBI and NSA.
The last 2.5 years of the pandemic have been dominated by unelected medical bureaucrats making proclamations about lockdowns, social distancing, mask wearing, and other draconian measures based on dogma not data. They are in positions of power in the 3-letter agencies of the NIH, FDA, CDC and WHO with unchecked influence over elected government officials...
It is no coincidence that the nation’s wealthiest people are all focused on real-world assets while pushing the virtual ones onto the consumer.
Why are people on the far right ‘pro virus’? The question came up on Quora, the social question and answer website. Despite its faulty premise, it sounded sincere. I had an epiphany while thinking about whether to answer that question: Accusing the far right of being “pro virus” is every bit as telling as accusing...
CHAPEL HILL — More than 10 years after the Commission on the Future of Higher Education assessed the plight of American universities, experts say the problems they identified remain entrenched, and new challenges strains educators even further. In 2005, then-U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, now president of the University of North Carolina, tasked the...
Much political debate in recent years has focused on income inequality in the United States and what, if anything, the federal government ought to do about it. Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University and director of the Mercatus Center, has studied inequality. While in North Carolina to deliver Duke University’s Hayek lecture,...
Political pundits continue to debate the sources of Donald Trump’s success during the 2016 Republican presidential primary process. One aspect of Trump’s triumph that has received little attention to date is the role of glamour in his campaign. Columnist Virginia Postrel is author of the book The Power of Glamour. She discussed Trump, glamour, and...
RALEIGH — Tuition keeps rising, yet millions of young people continue to pursue college degrees. Defenders of a traditional degree say it’s the gateway to a successful career and life, and they bristle at any criticism of the system. But is it really all it’s cracked up to be? George Leef, director of research for the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, addressed that question during a conversation with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
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