In response to these findings, a handful of pundits suggested that Republican legislators played a role in discouraging students from entering the teaching profession.
Published: Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 @ 12:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It seems like a lifetime ago, but remember the euphoria when Baghdad fell in early 2003?
Published: Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 @ 3:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For many years, state education and political leaders promised increasing our "investment" in public schools was the key to raising student achievement for disadvantaged students.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 8:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory and some Republican lawmakers in the General Assembly say they need more “tools” for economic development in North Carolina — by which they mean targeted tax breaks and corporate subsidies.
Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2014 @ 9:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When I’m not reading public-policy tomes for work or escapist science fiction for play, any book you’ll find in my hands will probably be a work of history.
Published: Wednesday, August 20th, 2014 @ 9:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Justin Wolfers, a University of Michigan economist and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote a piece for The New York Times a couple of weeks ago that was partly a response to a previous piece I wrote for The Wall Street Journal about North Carolina’s recent drop in unemployment.
Published: Thursday, August 14th, 2014 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The dust is settling following approval of the latest state budget.
Published: Wednesday, August 13th, 2014 @ 8:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Critics of the Republican-led General Assembly allege that the teacher-pay raise included in this year’s state budget could have been implemented in a much simpler fashion: by giving across-the-board hikes to all public school teachers across North Carolina, rather than giving large raises to early-
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 3:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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News accounts of the recently-passed $21.1 billion General Fund budget focus primarily on the teacher pay raise provided by budget writers.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 10:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Early next year, the John Locke Foundation will be celebrating our 25th anniversary.
Published: Sunday, August 10th, 2014 @ 5:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two recent federal appeals court rulings address the question of whether Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies for individual-market consumers can be distributed to those purchasing insurance through federal exchanges.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The question of whether government ought to subsidize historic preservation or Hollywood filmmaking is distinguishable from the question of how government ought to go about delivering those subsidies.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 4:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As North Carolina’s legislative session draws to a close and we enter the last quarter of the 2014 campaign, Democrats are hoping it will be a rerun of 1998. Republicans are hoping that it will be a rerun of 2010.
Published: Monday, August 4th, 2014 @ 11:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It’s the journey, not the destination, that matters most — or so we have been assured by deep thinkers ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Steven Tyler.
Published: Friday, August 1st, 2014 @ 1:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Critics of a just-passed Senate bill complain that it limits the ability of Wake, Guilford, and Forsyth counties to raise sales taxes to fund proposed rail transit systems in the Triangle and Triad.
Published: Monday, July 28th, 2014 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When liberals debate tax policy, it can be hard to keep track of their current positions. They keep changing.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 11:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Several of my recent columns have addressed the statistical basis of political disputes over education funding, the state budget, and declines in North Carolina’s unemployment rate.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 7:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For many students, summer is synonymous with sunning and snoozing.
Published: Monday, July 21st, 2014 @ 8:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I'm told that while there is no firmly established gift tradition for a 28th anniversary, the modern practice is to signify the event with an orchid.
Published: Sunday, July 20th, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two weeks after the start of the 2014-15 fiscal year, the North Carolina House and Senate still haven't reached an agreement on adjusting the state budget.
Published: Thursday, July 17th, 2014 @ 1:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite being the true political boss of North Carolina — the one from whom Gov. Pat McCrory, House Speaker Thom Tillis, and Senate leader Phil Berger take their orders over quaffs of mead at the Stonecutters Lodge — Pope has used recent events to camouflage the extent of his power.
Published: Monday, July 7th, 2014 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Within hours of the announcement last week that two Charlotte-based companies, LPL Financial and The Lash Group, would relocate thousands of jobs across the border to South Carolina, political and civic leaders in Charlotte and Raleigh began pushing the panic button on business incentives...
Published: Saturday, July 5th, 2014 @ 1:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We are seeing today the possibilities of management/labor cooperation in some places vs. abuse from either side against the other.
Published: Friday, June 13th, 2014 @ 1:53 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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In an editorial earlier this week, News & Observer editors admonished those who seek to slow down the implementation of Common Core Standards and want the state to back out from national testing requirements.
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 7:46 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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What's the old saying about the heat in the kitchen? The mainstream media enjoys tossing out criticism of other people and their work.
Published: Wednesday, September 11th, 2013 @ 1:14 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Have the Republicans lost their minds by rejecting Medicaid expansion? "Yes" is the answer, according to liberal Democrats and their allied editorial writers across the state.
Published: Tuesday, August 27th, 2013 @ 5:39 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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The terms "voter suppression" and "outrageous" were bandied about during the recent debate over North Carolina's voter ID and election law reforms.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 @ 12:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina I'm leading today is on a powerful comeback. After just six months of problem-solving leadership and making the tough decisions that we were elected to do, there is significant movement on vital reforms to tax policy, energy, education, economic development and transportation.
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 @ 5:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Check out our list of Polls here on Beaufort County Now.
Published: Monday, September 17th, 2012 @ 8:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Deatherage notified the WDN, in a Letter to the Editor e-mailed to Publisher Ray McKeithan on Jan. 20, of his amended terms for conducting future interviews with WDN reporters.
Published: Sunday, January 23rd, 2011 @ 2:06 pm
By: BCN
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Published: Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 @ 8:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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