Opinion
Voting by foot works quite well
If you don’t like key characteristics of your community, including how it is governed, you and your family can move somewhere else.
News
Raleigh to become home of USDA research hub
As part of the USDA's decentralization, the department's research division will be moving to Raleigh.
Opinion
Christmas and the power of small
At Christmas, all of us, through the chaotic accumulation of organic efforts, manage to put something together that all the central planners of the world's bureaucratic states couldn't rival.
Opinion
Cities differ on public safety tech
The police department in Winston-Salem uses a commercial product called ShotSpotter, a network of audio sensors and software, to identify possible incidents of gunfire and ensure a faster response to them. Since its implementation in 2021, the system appears to have reduced the number of aggravated assaults and saved at least two lives of gunshot...
Opinion
Nationalizing politics was a mistake
We’ve turned every federal election into a potential catastrophe in someone’s mind. We’ve made the stakes too high.
Opinion
States are better governed
Even if Washington confiscated every dollar received by every American in excess of $500,000 a year, that would yield only $11.8 trillion in new revenue over the next decade — less than currently projected deficits.
Opinion
Downsizing Federal Role in Education
Queried about which unit of government should be most responsible for education, Americans overwhelmingly say decisions should be made by state or local officials.
Opinion
Resist the Urge to Merge
The available research does not support the notion that local-government consolidation is inherently in the public interest.
Opinion
A Case for Experimentation
If NC policymakers want to lead on teacher compensation, they should abolish statewide regulations that dictate how local schools can hire, fire, and pay their teaching professionals.
Opinion
To Centralize or Not to Centralize
A preference for either state uniformity or local autonomy seems to come and go based on the specific case. This seems hypocritical, and sometimes is. But don’t jump to conclusions.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
All eyes this week were on our state's two largest school systems, where new proposals garnered front-page headlines and generated a heap of controversy. Clearly, residents in both Charlotte and Raleigh remain deeply divided over how to deal with explosive growth and its attendant overcrowding in public schools. A cursory look through news reports reveals a "tale of two cities," reflecting the best of times for some residents, and the worst of times for others.
