The U.S. Supreme Court's 1962 decision to open the door to redistricting disputes followed heated debate.
State lawmakers, to their credit, have started to listen. The loudest proponents of alcohol reform in North Carolina — lawmakers such as Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson, and Sen. Rick Gunn, R-Alamance — now have their colleagues’ unwavering attention. Finally. Breweries and wineries are now free of the long-time restrictive and tired rules from an overbearing...
Props to N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger for guiding the conversation in our state back toward things that matter. Things about which we can happily disagree. Courts, pipelines, solar farms, elections? Nah. Let’s talk barbecue, he says. Better yet, let’s talk barbecue while eating it, plates piled high. Tomato sauce on the western half, vinegar-based...
RALEIGH – A North Carolina municipal broadband network has made the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Dirty Dozen” — 12 high-profile taxpayer-funded internet projects that have cost the public more than $2 billion. The North Carolina network is MI-Connection, which provides broadband service to the Charlotte suburbs of Mooresville and Davidson. MI-Connection —$80 million in debt and has an annual...
Advocates of North Carolina’s new “Right to Try” law — and similar ones in other states — are raising awareness of the law, which allows terminally ill patients who have exhausted other procedures the opportunity to try new drugs that gone through part but not all of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process. “North...
Together, Kasarda and Lindsay have written a compelling, but ultimately unconvincing, book promoting a Utopian vision of globalization and explaining how the aerotropolis is key to this vision of the future.
Media airbrushing of the demographics of social problems makes those problems harder to solve.
GREENSBORO — A couple of months after Greensboro voters elected Mayor Bill Knight and a new City Council to restore fiscal accountability in city government, the council has found itself embroiled in two complicated and controversial projects that involve some form of taxpayer financing.
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.
Across the nation, the inner-city Catholic school is fast becoming a relic of the past. Will we throw these much-loved schools a lifeline? Such is the question posed by a new Thomas B. Fordham Institute report, Who Will Save America’s Urban Catholic Schools?, released to coincide with Pope Benedict’s visit to the U.S. this week.
RALEIGH – North Carolina counties could boost public safety, cut costs, and improve health outcomes by steering the mentally ill away from jail and toward community-based care. That’s the major finding in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
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