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"We have become so politically correct ... we don't know what the hell we're doing," Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said during a Friday night campaign rally at Raleigh's Dorton Arena
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 5:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Digital devices dominate hopes and headlines in education today. They're heralded as a way to boost learning outcomes, sharpen 21st-century skills, and narrow achievement gaps
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 1:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory last week pleaded with parents across North Carolina to talk to their children about underage consumption of alcohol.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On the front page of the November 28th edition of the Raleigh News and Observer the paper featured a report by Justin Catanoso, a Wake forest University journalism professor. The author expressed optimism that the Paris global warming conference would produce a "binding agreement to burn less...
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two House bills intended to reduce partisan manipulation of legislative redistricting could be acted on in the short session starting in April, though retiring Sen. Bob Rucho, R-Mecklenburg, predicted the Senate would not approve either.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Council of State on Tuesday approved the sale of five buildings in downtown Raleigh, which will bring more than $1.8 million to state coffers
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 8:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the athletic departments at UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University, and Appalachian State University prepare to collect extra revenue from the college football bowl games they'll play, a recent study by The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Huffington Post, "Sports At Any Cost," reveals...
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 4:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Altha Cravey, a geography professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, issues a series of demands at Friday's meeting of the UNC Board of Governors before being removed by security.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 3:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers should take aim at the state's current system of depreciation, as they look for more ways to improve the tax code.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 2:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A recent edition of the Raleigh News and Observer featured a front-page lead story by Justin Catanoso, a Wake Forest University journalism professor.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 11:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Since 2012," the Apple web site boasts, "all our data centers have been powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources."
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 11:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's economic and budget pictures look much better today than they did a few years ago.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the 2016 election cycle approaches, North Carolina voters will witness a spirited political debate about how best to promote economic growth
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 9:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Pat McCrory, Roy Cooper, Richard Burr, and many other confirmed or potential candidates for statewide office in North Carolina have plans. They have strategies. They have backers, and staffers, and plenty of ideas for how best to win their elections in November of 2016.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 12:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's hard to reach the right conclusion when you start with false premises.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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However complicated you want to try to make it, the concept of free speech does not contain the right to shut other people up. Unfortunately, there is an entire movement of political activists right now who would not only disagree with my assertion but would seek to keep me from saying...
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 10:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Superior Court judge ordered the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education to release previously undisclosed information about the circumstances surrounding the departure of a school superintendent in what media lawyer John Bussian said was "a big deal" for the public's right to know.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 9:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare's failing co-ops (consumer-operated and oriented health plans) simply reinforce the fact that government intervention in health care creates all sorts of problems.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 6:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Pulitzer Prize winner Gaul examines elite programs in recent book... It's no secret that the world of college football involves huge amounts of money.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Saying the current plan is antiquated, a legislative agency on Monday recommended that the state scrap its three-tiered system for awarding economic development grants.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two of state government's most influential fiscal administrators overseeing budget and revenue operations are leaving their posts, and Thursday Gov. Pat McCrory called a news conference at the Executive Mansion to announce their successors.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 4:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the 1787-89 debates over ratifying the U.S. Constitution, for example, North Carolina's population was divided over the necessity of a new constitution and what became known as the Bill of Rights.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 12:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A novel justification for governments heavily subsidizing otherwise unsustainable, expensive, inefficient renewable energy is to argue that all energy sources get subsidies. The general assertion is true as far as that goes. Still, the argument is often used as a variant of...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1972, at the University of Georgia, our college newspaper staff opposed the proposal to change the name of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism to the Henry W. Grady School of Mass Communications
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past 12 months, North Carolina has experienced faster income growth than the rest of the country, regardless of whether that growth is measured as average income per person or median income by household.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory has urged North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper to join South Carolina in filing a friend-of-the-court, or amicus, brief opposing the Obama administration and the ACLU in a lawsuit that could require North Carolina K-12 schools to open restrooms and locker rooms to transgender.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In March, the National Education Association released its latest Rankings and Estimates report. Last school year, North Carolina's average teacher salary ranked 42nd in the nation and trailed No. 41-ranked Louisiana by just over $100. The new edition of the report should be...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some political pundits talk about a monolithic group called the Christian Right, social conservatives who march in lockstep behind a standard set of socially conservative political views
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medical providers will tell you that about 75 percent of health care can be provided in a primary care setting
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In what is evolving into a war of words and political philosophies, Gov. Pat McCrory said he would pursue what Attorney General Roy Cooper would not - formal opposition to a Virginia transgender student's lawsuit that could force North Carolina to allow both sexes to use the same K-12 public...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Politicians have two main rhetorical tools as their disposal. When they want to build rapport with voters, they pull out a trusty anecdote
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 9:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With major military installations such as Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune, observers might expect North Carolina to have a larger-than-average share of military veterans living in the state.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Casting himself as an outsider who came to Raleigh to right a listing ship of state, Gov. Pat McCrory formally announced his re-election bid Wednesday with a heavy emphasis on job creation and income growth that are part of what he calls the Carolina Comeback
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 6:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nearly 20 members of the General Assembly, including several powerful veteran lawmakers, will not be running for re-election in 2016, and that number could swell as the candidate filing period that opens today at noon moves forward
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 6:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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