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DPI marks first year of Green’s plan with pre-plan results
DPI marked year one of Mo Green's strategic plan with four record results, all of which predate the plan. The dashboard it launched sets a 2030 goal of 60% proficiency.
Opinion
What if Medicaid were run more like Target?
Private sector-like innovation in health-care delivery is possible while delivering improved health and economic mobility outcomes and keeping state budgets neutral.
News
Report: Natural gas faces opposition in NC despite strengths
A new report from the John Locke Foundation outlines obstacles and policy solutions to using natural gas to create a path to a zero-emissions future.
Opinion
Elites failing iconic American institutions
Critical American institutions are crumbing before our eyes because the intellectual elites charged with caring for those institutions are failing on a grand scale. In academia, business, and government people in critical leadership positions are failing the most basic responsibilities and across the spectrum. Students, stockholders, customers, and citizens are suffering failure, as is the culture...
Opinion
For the sake of the pile: My lesson in Christmas equity
When my three children were little, I went to great lengths to ensure that each one’s pile of gifts on Christmas morning was the same number and value. It was an annual exercise that made me (and my husband) a bit crazy. That artfully arranged collection of gifts on Christmas morning was my way of saying “I love you.” Now I know I inadvertently taught them a lesson in the futility of chasing equity.
Opinion
‘The Holdovers’ review: An early Christmas gift
One scene in director Alexander Payne’s latest movie, “The Holdovers,” epitomizes the entire film. On Christmas morning, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), the usually cantankerous classics teacher at a New England boarding school in the early 1970s, summons rebellious student Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa) and grieving cafeteria lady Mary Lamb (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) to the mess...
Opinion
The federal government’s Amazon lawsuit will hurt thousands of NC small businesses
I work with dozens of businesses in North Carolina and nationwide that successfully sell products online through Amazon and Walmart.com. I’m deeply concerned for my clients and the more than 20,000 Amazon sellers based in North Carolina because the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) misguided lawsuit against Amazon is the ultimate Big Government blunder. Amazon revolutionized...
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Target in Robeson video sweepstakes case defends game in court
The owner of video sweepstakes games targeted in a Robeson County case is asking the state Court of Appeals to reject a request from state law enforcement leaders. Those leaders want the state’s second-highest court to block a trial court order allowing the sweepstakes business to continue operations.
Opinion
How MVP Southgate can help bridge gap from coal to zero-emissions nuclear
On July 27, the US Supreme Court vacated the stay imposed by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The pipeline project is about 94% completed and was originally supposed to be finished by 2020, but desperate court challenges and permit delays had pushed its completion date to 2026. The...
Opinion
Mr. Beast’s social-media philanthropy is new twist on age-old model
Those who don’t spend much time on social media may not be aware of Mr. Beast, the YouTube alias for 24-year-old Jimmy Donaldson of Greenville, North Carolina. Donaldson has 131 million subscribers just on Youtube, and his latest video, “1,000 blind people see for the first time,” had 80 million views less than a week...
Opinion
Pedophile hunters, Golden Globes, and gas stove bans: outrageous stories of the week
Earlier this week, Winston-Salem released information about four men involved in a June 2022 fight at a Target store and about the warrants against them. Three of the men were part of a pedophile-hunting vigilante group known as “Dads Against Predators” (DAP), which poses as underage children to lure online pedophiles into the open. Once...
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All 100 county sheriffs races on N.C.’s November ballot
All of North Carolina’s county sheriffs races are on the ballot in 2022, and many candidates are there for the first time. Twenty local sheriffs across the state have decided not to run again. “When you count up all of the folks that will be elected for the first time in November, there will be...
