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NC joins lawsuit over FEMA grant conditions

NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a coalition of attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia, and the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, in a lawsuit filed in Rhode Island on July 23 against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for threatening to withhold more than $1 billion in homeland security and disaster-response grants to states unless they adopt the Trump administration policies on elections and immigration.

Theresa Opeka

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Cherish our free state of North Carolina

North Carolina isn’t quite First in Freedom. But over the past decade and a half, we’ve taken tremendous strides in the right direction. Those are among the findings of the latest Economic Freedom of North America index, published earlier this month by the Canada-based Fraser Institute. The new report uses 2023 data on government expenditure,...

John Hood
Opinion

Test scores show modest improvement

Test scores are up for North Carolina’s public-school students — a welcome development, although the news isn’t all good. On average, 55% of students in grades three or higher tested proficient on last year’s state exams. For the 2023-24 school year, that figure was 54.2%. In 2018-19, the last full academic year before COVID, it...

John Hood
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