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Legal battle over UNC’s civic life report returns to court Tuesday

The legal dispute over release of a $1.2 million report prepared for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is scheduled to return to court Tuesday. Media outlets want a judge to force university officials to release the report about the School of Civic Life and Leadership.

CJ Staff

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Opinion

We can do better on prisons

Prison is not supposed to be pleasant. It is a place for people to be punished for their crimes, hopefully rehabilitating them in the process. It is also a place where we can separate dangerous people from the rest of society. But if the state is going to justly strip offenders of their freedom, their...

David Larson
Opinion

The dystopian nightmare of parents choosing their child’s school

This week, Republicans held a news conference, with both state House and Senate sponsors of a bill, named “Choose Your School, Choose Your Future,” that would make Opportunity Scholarships, often called vouchers, available to all N.C. families. The value of the scholarships would be dependent on income, with lower-income families getting 100% of the per-pupil...

David Larson