This presents a massive economic development opportunity for Winston-Salem. Unlike industries like banking or tech, once biotech companies build manufacturing facilities, they don’t leave.
One of the most eyebrow-raising expenditures Paul described is $1 million allocated to study the sexual effects of cocaine on Japanese quail.
Saying “per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances” is a mouthful—so let’s stick with the common abbreviation for this group of man-made chemicals: PFAS. And no, you don’t want a mouthful of them. If consumed in high concentrations, PFAS may be harmful to human health. But we don’t know how high a concentration it takes. That’s why the...
Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday he sent a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke seeking to delay any decision on drilling or seismic testing of the ocean floor in search of oil and gas deposits off North Carolina’s coast. Cooper wants the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to hold public hearings outside Raleigh in...
An industry dependent on incentives, giveaways, and mandates does not offer an economic success story.
The costs of adjusting to purported increases in sea level have been left out of major news stories.
When it comes to conducting, analyzing, and explaining scholarly research on education reform, Herbert Walberg has pretty much done it all.
DURHAM — Speculation over whether Congress might reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, which the FCC repealed in 1987, and possibly extend its reach beyond traditional broadcast media to include the Internet has been growing over the past several months.
Responding to the Easley administration's allegation of being a "Chicken Little" on the NC economy means picking up a lot of pieces of sky that must have fallen from somewhere.
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