Jim Martin was the most underappreciated governor in our state’s modern history.
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 @ 6:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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A group describing itself as "recognized leaders in the North Carolina business community" supports plaintiffs in the Leandro school funding legal dispute.
Published: Sunday, July 31st, 2022 @ 1:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Over the last 3 weeks, several members of the Charlotte City Council and community have launched personal attacks of ethics violations
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2020 @ 1:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The University of North Carolina System is governed by confusion, and the problem is as much systemic as it is situational.
Published: Thursday, April 25th, 2019 @ 9:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Since January 2016, the University of North Carolina system has had two “permanent” presidents and two interim leaders (including current Interim President Dr. Bill Roper).
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2019 @ 5:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Allies of UNC System Board of Governors Chairman Harry Smith are trying to silence a critic on the board
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2019 @ 11:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If the Board of Governors meetings were broadcast they would become the top rated reality show on TV. There's something for everyone - humor, pathos, conflict, and, occasionally, a nugget of wisdom. Such was the case with the latest meeting
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @ 12:08 am
By: Tom Campbell
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If we can allow ourselves to tune out the many distractions coming out of Washington (and Raleigh), we might be able to tune into the number one domestic issue of our time - healthcare
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 3:17 am
By: Tom Campbell
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More than two years after releasing a scathing report alleging that a glut of investment fund managers are collecting fees that have plundered North Carolina’s state employee pension plan
Published: Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the fall campaign in North Carolina, the presidential and gubernatorial races captured most of the attention
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 11:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When then-Congressman Richard Burr first ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004, he drew a tough Democratic opponent: former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles
Published: Sunday, November 6th, 2016 @ 1:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even before she assumes control of the University of North Carolina system, former Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has become a lightening rod for attacks by faculty, students, and activists on the left
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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What IS a Republican? Is it merely someone who marks an 'R' on their voter registration card? Is it someone who seeks to protect the common people from the excesses of government bureaucracy?
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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UNC Board of Governors Chairman John Fennebresque and Margaret Spellings, the top candidate to become UNC system president, left a recent "emergency" meeting of the board to meet with Gov. Pat McCrory, a source at the meeting told Carolina Journal. Fennebresque and Spellings were in a closed...
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 @ 4:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tom Ross is on the way out as president of the University of North Carolina - although he will remain in his position until January 2016. While Ross's departure was inevitable, it is puzzling that John Fennebresque, who serves as chairman of the system's Board of Governors, extended Ross's tenure...
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 9:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Over the past two years, the University of North Carolina has been implementing recommendations laid out by the General Administration and Board of Governors in their 2013 report, Our Time, Our Future: the UNC Compact with North Carolina. For example, the system has streamlined the transfer...
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 10:55 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When my grandfather was president of Campbell College I remember his stories of students who paid tuitions with hams, cabbages or produce from their family's farm.
Published: Saturday, December 13th, 2014 @ 12:55 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The State Employees Association of North Carolina could receive significant monetary awards if it prevailed in a whistleblower complaint against those investing the state pension fund's money.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 3:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Where can budget writers find savings to help fund priorities such as teacher raises? That’s a question on everyone’s mind these days.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 2:58 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Public universities have stability that private colleges do not. Cushioned by state appropriations, they don't rely on tuition the way private colleges do and their lower tuition makes them competitive.
Published: Monday, March 10th, 2014 @ 5:49 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Apparently, Richard Burr thinks keeping The New York Times happy IS more important than saving the country.
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2013 @ 1:14 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A small change in a North Carolina law affecting charter schools could have a major impact on teacher education in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 @ 4:32 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The meeting of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors on August 9 will be a milestone. Sixteen new members of the UNC Board of Governors will take office - and for the first time in North Carolina history, all voting members have been selected by a Republican legislature (the first 16 w
Published: Monday, July 22nd, 2013 @ 2:44 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The University of North Carolina's Board of Governors gives high priority to preparation of elementary and high school teachers, and for good reason. The education schools in the state university system produce one-third of the new teachers in North Carolina each year.
Published: Saturday, July 6th, 2013 @ 11:02 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Former Governor Jim Holshouser passed away today at First Health of the Carolinas Medical Center in Pinehurst after a period of declining health.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 @ 7:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last year, many North Carolina colleges and universities invited politicians to be keynote speakers during their commencement ceremonies. This year the focus was on speakers who made it big in the technology industry, plus some academics and celebrities from television news.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 @ 4:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A deputy to state treasurer Janet Cowell is warning that efforts to take Charlotte Douglas International Airport away from the City of Charlotte and have it run by a new regional authority could have negative consequences on the state's borrowing power.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 6:26 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Remember the TV ad with the little old lady holding up a burger and asking, "Where's the Beef?"
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2013 @ 1:50 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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What does it mean to be Republican? Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater established the national party as a force for shrinking government and cutting taxes.
Published: Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 @ 12:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Everyone wants to avoid the proverbial fiscal cliff that threatens us on January 1, but nobody wants to make any sacrifices to prevent it.
Published: Friday, November 30th, 2012 @ 1:09 am
By: Tom Campbell
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