Opinion
Why NC should lead with modular edge data centers
North Carolina already possesses key advantages, including reliable power in many regions, a skilled workforce, and a business-friendly climate.
News
Senate showdown: Campaign consultants offer inside take on 2026 race
UNC Chapel Hill hosted an NC Senate Race Preview event with two leading NC political strategists, Democratic campaign consultant Morgan Jackson and Republican campaign consultant Jonathan Felts.
Opinion
School choice doesn’t need federal funding
Resisting the creeping centralized federal control of school choice might not have been the motive behind Stein’s veto, but it should be for any school choice advocate.
Opinion
Middle school girl to lawmakers: Please don’t make me room with a boy
It's time to protect women and girls by passing the Women’s Safety and Protection Act.
Opinion
People of means have always had school choice
We've always had educational choice for those of means. All the school-choice movement is trying to do is provide those same choices to those who haven't traditionally had them.
News
Lawmakers pass bill expanding dining and drinking options, but Cooper signals a veto
Editor’s note: This story was updated Friday, May 29, to include current numbers on COVID-19 deaths, as reported the NCDHHS. A bill to reopen private bars and clubs, as well as expanding outdoor seating in restaurants and brewpubs, is awaiting a decision from the governor. He’ll probably veto the measure, which also applies to breweries,...
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General Assembly leaders want Amazon Wind Farm shut down
North Carolina’s legislative leaders want the incoming Trump administration to consider shutting down the $400 million, 104-turbine Amazon Wind Farm project under construction near Elizabeth City because, they say, the massive turbines would interfere with a nearby radar facility run by the military. The request came in a letter to retired Marine Corps Gen. John...
Opinion
Calling it both ways
Journalists, like umpires, lose credibility quickly when they appear to choose sides.
News
Cooper’s ‘Win’ Against Coastal Developers Won’t Go Far
RALEIGH — A settlement touted by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper on Sept. 3 as a “win” for investors victimized by two questionable developments on the North Carolina coast promises to provide only pennies-on-the-dollar restitution to those who lost money in the transactions.
Opinion
Of Carolina’s Glory Days
North Carolina’s traditional approach to public policy has failed. We have one of the worst-performing economies in the United States.
Opinion
Technically Speaking, NC Is Middling
North Carolina’s economy isn’t any more high-tech than is the American economy as a whole, and we’re quite a bit less high-tech than are other state economies in our region.
