Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation director of research and education studies, discusses the new N.C. state education budget. Stoops offered these comments during the Aug. 5, 2013, edition of News 14 Carolina’s “Capital Tonight.”
Opinion
Politics should be less important
It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for nearly four decades, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be. Virtually every decision we make in our ostensibly free society is now subject to review, refinement, and reversal by some...