Forgive the odd headline. I was just trying out a new trick I picked up on another site, The Daily Haymaker. The site has been around a long time on the North Carolina conservative commentary scene, so I figured it could teach me a thing or two. Now that I’ve tried the phrasing myself, I...
I live in Stanly County, and freedom-loving people in my community have been fighting for months to push our all-Republican school board to make masks optional in schools. Unfortunately, we have yet to effect change. But given that 108 of 115 North Carolina school districts still require masks in schools, I know we’re not alone. Words...
In a 4-3 split vote, the high court's Democrats rule Harris Teeter's good economic performance should lead to a higher tax bill.
If you raft on the river of popular culture, then you can hardly do better than to hire Mark Twain and Andrew Breitbart as your guides. One man lived long enough to become the elder statesman of American letters by 1910, and the other died young in 2012, but both of them paid sharp attention...
Sen. Louis Pate, R-Wayne, is part of a vanishing breed of politician, friends and colleagues noted. He put his life on the line as a Vietnam combat veteran, but was a quintessential Southern gentleman who fought firmly but politely in the General Assembly for principles and policies he believed in. Pate, an energetic worker on...
Nuclear power advocates are jumping on the climate change bandwagon. They are repackaging the industry as a clean energy alternative, and making a case for government subsidies. The Joint Legislative Commission on Energy Policy got that pitch in April. Nuclear energy representatives said nuclear plants are far more reliable than environmentalists’ preferred solar and wind...
RALEIGH — Each month's employment report is nothing more than a snapshot, often a fuzzy one, of an ever-changing job market.
RALEIGH — Not all college and university faculty in the humanities spend their time worrying about “publish-or-perish” or their insufficient pay. There’s a group of faculty who live and breathe one thing: teaching their students the classics.
The decline of reading as a national pastime has far-reaching educational and economic implications.
There’s a growing consensus that our state testing program is due for a major overhaul. But ideas on how to fix it vary widely. Last week, the Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability (formed in May by the State Board of Education) circulated draft proposals for change.
Don't blame a successful lobbying group for understanding the rules of the game.
