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The Climate Working Group upended the Washington policy consensus.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2025 @ 8:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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while cursing as much as possible and obeying the law as little as possible
Published: Friday, August 15th, 2025 @ 7:02 pm
By: John Steed
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"There is no lack of consensus among the justices."
Published: Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 @ 9:40 am
By: Daily Wire
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General Assembly leaders agreed to a bottom-line budget number last week, kicking off the biennium budget season. Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) and House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) announced that General Fund spending would increase by 6.5% in the first year
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 2:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A consensus has been emerging that tutoring is the best way to remedy learning loss
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 12:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Office of State Budget and Management and the General Assembly’s Fiscal Research Division released their joint forecast for North Carolina’s revenue today. This is a standard procedure that occurs in the early days of the budgeting process to inform lawmakers of the state of the economy.
Published: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Various polls show that economists generally expect a recession this year, although there is no consensus among leading analysts.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 9:39 am
By: Daily Wire
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In a stunning reversal from decades of scientific consensus, scientists have now revealed that the planet is hurtling toward a devastating ice age and that we need to pump as much CO2 into the atmosphere as possible or we're all going to die.
Published: Saturday, December 31st, 2022 @ 9:12 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday blamed global factors for Americans’ spiraling purchasing power and declared a recession is “not at all inevitable,” despite a growing consensus the U.S. could soon find out one is already underway.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 12:10 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Joy Pullmann of the Federalist highlights a mystifying decision from a top federal health agency.
Published: Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 @ 3:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Consensus revenue forecast shows revenues will exceed May 2020 projections by $4.1 billion
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 5:59 pm
By: Governor's Office
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John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist questions popular thought about the nature of recent riots across the nation.
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2020 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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That is a growing consensus amongst law enforcement and the public.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2020 @ 10:13 am
By: LifeZette
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Major League Baseball has drafted a plan to restart the season in July as long as the teams can sell it to the players’ union on Tuesday.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 @ 9:16 am
By: Daily Wire
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Appropriation leaders in the House and Senate are busy working behind closed doors to find consensus on a COVID-19 relief package.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2020 @ 7:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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President Trump has called his “principled realism” but, befitting such a fuzzy term, there’s no consensus on what drives the current approach.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2020 @ 12:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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There’s a loneliness epidemic among youth today. That’s the growing consensus among researchers, with implications for school culture. One reason: Lonely, depressed kids are more likely to bully or be bullied.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2019 @ 8:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In any human enterprise as complex, varied, and challenging as education, we shouldn't expect a great deal of consensus, much less unanimity
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 9:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Our planet is going to hit disaster if we don't turn this ship around and so it's basically like, there's a scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult."
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 @ 3:32 am
By: Daily Wire
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The medical community is unable to reach consensus on what to do with America's health insurance situation.
Published: Monday, March 27th, 2017 @ 7:40 am
By: Bobby Tony
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While making calls for consensus, and saying “now is not the time to point fingers,” Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper renewed his challenge to the GOP-dominated legislature to repeal House Bill 2 and expand Medicaid during a Saturday morning inaugural address
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2017 @ 6:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In Great Britain, as in the United States, a growing moral consensus and a lack of political diversity among faculty and administrators is moving higher education away from the pursuit and transmission of knowledge in favour of the promotion of politically correct values
Published: Sunday, January 31st, 2016 @ 9:56 am
By: John William Pope Center
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After nearly eight months of lengthy and heated discussion, Republican leaders in the North Carolina Senate and House have come to a consensus on a $21.7 billion state budget for the next two years. Since education comprises the single biggest item in the state budget, there is a lot of interest...
Published: Monday, September 21st, 2015 @ 12:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I noted in last week's newsletter that the American left has abandoned its traditional support for free expression and now seems intent on criminalizing politically incorrect speech. One notable manifestation of this change is a growing consensus that "hate speech" ought to be subject to criminal...
Published: Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 @ 9:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The news that state revenue collections are coming in at $400 million above projections could signal a cut in the corporate tax rate for next year.
Published: Monday, May 11th, 2015 @ 4:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today very positive news for the state of North Carolina, which includes an estimated revenue surplus of approximately $400 million dollars for the current fiscal year which ends June 30. Previous consensus budget forecasts predicted a revenue shortfall of...
Published: Thursday, May 7th, 2015 @ 11:15 am
By: Chris Downey
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In our “us-versus-them” partisan culture it is rare to find an issue on which there is unanimous consensus but Governor Pat McCrory has identified one. North Carolina has not adequately built or maintained its public infrastructure for decades.
Published: Sunday, April 26th, 2015 @ 11:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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On the eve of his birth, the mother of Buddha dreamed that a white elephant presented her with a lotus flower, a sign of wisdom and purity. Throughout history a white elephant was regarded in Buddhist kingdoms as a symbol of divine blessing.
Published: Sunday, February 1st, 2015 @ 8:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Consensus denial persists, according to Paul Krugman (to cite one who is highly experienced in denial), because "there are powerful groups with a strong interest in rejecting the facts."
Published: Thursday, November 6th, 2014 @ 6:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the "Rights and Regulation Update" and in two separate reports I have offered an important emerging consensus in the public debate about hydraulic fracturing...
Published: Monday, September 29th, 2014 @ 3:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In this newsletter and in two separate reports I have offered an important emerging consensus in the public debate about hydraulic fracturing:
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 8:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s public schools have just released end-of-grade and end-of-course test scores for the 2013-14 school year.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state legislature is back in session this week. The consensus around the state capital is that this year's "short session" will live up to its name. But just because legislators won't be in town for very long doesn't mean they shouldn't address some important issues.
Published: Friday, May 16th, 2014 @ 12:43 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In case you've been too busy with real life to keep track of the political dramas of the past two weeks, here's a brief recap.
Published: Tuesday, October 15th, 2013 @ 5:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political debates about education policy are so contentious that consensus may seem forever out of reach. Yet here's something that virtually everyone agrees is true: academic achievement reflects more than just the value added by teachers, administrators, textbooks, and technology...
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 2:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission's (CRC) forecast of sea level rise from climate change is far greater than the consensus estimate of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 9:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Beaufort County Commissioners, at their January 9th General Meeting, agreed, by consensus, to move forward to effect a new revaluation of real property in an upcoming 4 or 5 year cycle.
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 @ 11:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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