In October 2019, Beaufort businessman Randy Ramsey was unanimously elected chairman of the University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors. He’s had an eventful few months at the helm. Ramsey, president of boat-building company Jarrett Bay Boatworks, was named to the board in 2017 and became vice chair in 2018. As the successor of...
American universities are in jeopardy of becoming no better than finishing schools reserved for the rich, Mitch Daniels told an audience at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Daniels, president of Purdue University, issued the dire warning during a speech Wednesday, Sept. 24, highlighting challenges facing higher education. Daniels, a former Indiana governor, was this...
In 2007, the federal government granted Indiana and then-Gov. Mitch Daniels a waiver to administer Medicaid to an expanded population.Indiana launched the Healthy Indiana Plan in 2008 with a five-year federal waiver. HIP was to be the nation’s first consumer-directed health plan for low-income residents. The intent was to encourage personal responsibility and accountability. But...
Tuition freezes are gaining popularity across the country. Earlier this year, university systems in Virginia and Pennsylvania announced tuition would not rise in the next academic year, saving students and parents millions. Purdue University started the tuition-freeze trend in 2013. Under the leadership of its president, Mitch Daniels, Purdue instituted a freeze on all tuition...
The burden of proof ought to be on those making the “split-personality” claim about Pat McCrory to cite at least one concrete example of the phenomenon.
RALEIGH — The suburb-heavy Western Wake County district has the highest number of independent voters in the state — 36.6 percent of registered voters are unaffiliated. The rest of the registered voters are split fairly evenly among Democrats and Republicans. But less than a quarter of partisans have voted straight tickets in recent elections.
RALEIGH — Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats won big in the 2008 elections. Republicans won big in 2010. Pundits and prognosticators are trying to determine what this recent history means for 2012. Stephen Hayes, senior writer at The Weekly Standard and Fox News contributor, discussed the electoral picture with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
It seems clear to me now that the Republicans will nominate one of three options, all former or current governors: Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, or Rick Perry.
RALEIGH — Whichever political party controls the N.C. General Assembly, lobbyists for special interests often pressure lawmakers to raise taxes. That will be true in 2011, as Republicans take control of the state Legislative Building. John Locke Foundation President John Hood discussed the topic with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
In Buck Wild, Stephen Slivinski, at the time the director of budget studies at the Cato Institute, explores the previous 25 years of Republican governance, from Ronald Reagan’s halting moves to rein in federal spending through the first decade of postwar congressional rule by the GOP, and how the Republican Revolutionaries elected in 1994 morphed into “tax collectors for the welfare state” (to cite Newt Gingrich’s description of Bob Dole).
Legislators heading to Raleigh in January will have to fill a large budget hole.
