ELIZABETH CITY — Amazon claims its large-scale wind farm near Elizabeth City will produce enough electricity “to power more than 61,000 U.S. homes,” but neither the online company nor its wind farm operator Avangrid will share data supporting that claim. Amazon continues to perpetuate the misleading notion that the electrical grid can take power from...
RALEIGH — When Amazon Web Services, a division of online retailer Amazon, announced in July its involvement in North Carolina’s first major wind farm, the company stated the power would be used for its data centers in Northern Virginia, but the centers will continue to purchase electricity entirely from Dominion Virginia Power, the public utility that currently supplies the Amazon data centers.
RALEIGH — Critics accuse the Confucius Institute — which has had a presence at N.C. State University since 2007 — of being a propaganda arm of the Chinese government. In addition to fostering a better image of China, Confucius Institutes have pressured universities into keeping mum about Tibetan and Taiwanese freedom, as well as human rights abuses like Tiananmen Square, according to reports from numerous mainstream news outlets.
The share of 25-year-olds who have student-loan debt was 43 percent in 2012, up from 25 percent in 2003.
Most serious policymakers of both parties actually agree with Pat McCrory about higher education funding and are acting on their belief.
If North Carolinians are looking for models of how to deliver valuable services at an affordable cost while fostering rapid economic growth, Poland would be a good place to start.
Many of the same people criticizing the Asheville water and Charlotte airport bills have for decades advocated regional authorities to deliver water and transportation services.
I disagreed with the late Bill Friday on nearly every public policy issue you can imagine.
Among state university systems, North Carolina ranked a disappointing 42nd in return on investment.
ELON — The prestige of being at the top of a premier business magazine’s rankings brings with it bragging rights. Billboards trumpeting the good news are due to be erected along Interstate 85 near Mebane and Greensboro within a month.
Liberals are trying to blame the S&P downgrade and subsequent economic turmoil on Tea Party conservatives. Of course they are.
