It is not quite the same as the Popular "Hooked on Classics" music compilation of the early 1980's. But I guess I'm hooked none the less.
Published: Monday, June 20th, 2016 @ 3:53 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The Emerging Issues Forum always puts a microscope on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead and this year's event was no exception.
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2016 @ 7:46 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Alexa Bloom has a master's degree in special education instruction, so she knew her son, Julian, was going to need a flexible approach to learning. When Julian was just 18 months old, doctors diagnosed him with autism and a severe sensory and auditory processing disorder...
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 1:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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One of the most popular options for expanding educational opportunity is the Education Savings Account (ESA). Currently five states - Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Nevada - have passed ESA legislation, and at least 10 other states have bills in the works.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 10:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On a mild, overcast June 5 in Raleigh, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker stepped up to the microphone in the garden of a private home. He was there to discuss what he had done in Wisconsin, and, implicitly, what he could do for the nation.
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 @ 10:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Neither the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) nor the Office of the State Auditor is any stranger to media attention. Between the NCAE's dues check off litigation and the State Auditor's recent report on corruption at DHHS, both organizations have seen their share of the limelight...
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2015 @ 4:36 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The news that North Carolina's state General Fund budget revenue is now predicted to come in $400 million above original estimates caused the Left to go into full spin mode. For months, liberal progressives were fretting about the end of Western Civilization as we know it due to earlier...
Published: Saturday, May 9th, 2015 @ 3:20 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Imagine a piece of state legislation that could both lower your utility bill and make North Carolina more competitive for jobs.
Published: Thursday, May 7th, 2015 @ 9:38 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Now you can learn the school of economic thought that politicians, mainstream economic professors and Paul Krugman don't want you to know about - right in the palm of your hand.
Published: Thursday, April 30th, 2015 @ 1:57 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In part one of this series we reported on right-of-center political consultants who have created an innovative business model advising a growing number of Republican legislators to turn their backs on conservative, free-market principles to take up the cause of more government mandates...
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 @ 8:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that if we discuss a problem long enough we can come up with a solution? It doesn't work that way with public policy issues, especially in the selection of judges.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 @ 4:43 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and possible 2016 Republican primary candidate Carly Fiorina closed out the Civitas Institute's annual Conservative Leadership Conference with a rousing talk about the need for a return to individual value in America, along with acknowledgement she is indeed pondering a pr
Published: Friday, April 10th, 2015 @ 11:14 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On March 26, several members of the North Carolina House of Representatives filed House Bill 348 - The NC Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The bill, with primary sponsors Rep. Jacqueline Michelle Shaffer and Rep. Dan Bishop, is one of several pieces of legislation nationwide that have...
Published: Monday, April 6th, 2015 @ 8:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Civitas 2015 Conservative Leadership Conference (CLC) this past weekend kicked off on Friday with thought-provoking insights from a range of speakers, including two potential presidential candidates, Dr. Ben Carson and former Sen. Rick Santorum.
Published: Saturday, April 4th, 2015 @ 9:06 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today, the Civitas Institute joins the Cato Institute in asking the United States Supreme Court to clarify its role in protecting Americans from occupational licensure abuse. In a joint amicus brief, attorneys from Civitas and Cato ask the Court to grant certiorari in Vong v. Aune - a case with...
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 8:14 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Two teams of students at East Carolina University recently took on the same challenge: identify a social problem facing their community and create a business plan to effectively address it.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 12:54 am
By: ECU News Services
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In his article "Maintaining rigor and listening to teachers in the debate over academic standards," Keith Poston argues against revisions to the current Common Core standards and the importance of ensuring teachers have a voice in this discussion. In a two-part response, I argue, in part one...
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2015 @ 8:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Politicians love to use their power to dole out favors and privileges to politically-connected special interests. They also love to interfere with the economy, attempting to impose their preferences upon investors and consumers through a hodgepodge of taxpayer handouts and targeted tax breaks.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 5:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Wake County Public Schools finds itself in the middle of a book controversy. Concerned parents at Highcroft Drive Elementary School have voiced concerns about the use of highly questionable books by fourth graders at the school. A blogger named NC Citizen, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote...
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 11:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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With most academic fields, we know what they are about. Political science teaches about political systems and their workings; philosophy about how people have thought on questions such as ethics; literature courses have students read and contemplate worthwhile books.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Education is the campaign focus as the North Carolina House District 118 race heads toward the finish line.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 6:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Republicans continue to portray Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan as joined at the hip to an unpopular President Obama, and with congressional approval ratings in the ditch, the freshman senator’s best campaign strategy is to avoid national issues, political observers say.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 12:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What are Kay Hagan's positions on energy issues? It depends on the audience and whether or not it's an election year.
Published: Friday, June 6th, 2014 @ 9:22 am
By: Christopher Maye
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State recreational water quality officials today are alerting the public that initial testing at a sound-side site in Beaufort County showed levels of bacteria exceeding the state and Environmental Protection Agency's recreational water quality swimming standards.
Published: Friday, May 30th, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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For Democrats to retain control of the U.S. Senate, they need to keep GOP gains to no more than five seats, which would leave the chamber split and Vice President Joe Biden - Leslie Knope's dream date - the deciding vote.
Published: Wednesday, April 9th, 2014 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I was there when the cowboys took charge of an environmental policy meeting inside the Washington beltway and thoroughly defeated the liberal, tree hugging environmentalists.
Published: Friday, March 28th, 2014 @ 11:56 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Many students struggle to write a simple research paper. Change the assignment to include qualitative research methods and the task becomes even more demanding. An East Carolina University professor aims to help students navigate through the research process by applying her own unique real world...
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 @ 7:17 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Energy issues have been in the headlines recently, and this column compiles them. Here's a question to think about before starting: What if someone discovered
Published: Friday, August 9th, 2013 @ 12:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Contrary to what you may have thought manufacturing is not dead in North Carolina, but it is quite different from our old perceptions of textile and furniture mills and tobacco factories.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 4:22 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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We've got all kinds of folks at the federal and state level opining on this issue. (Never mind the anemic economic growth, the smothering bureaucracy, and the record unemployment.)
Published: Thursday, January 31st, 2013 @ 8:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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State recreational water quality officials today are notifying the public that initial testing at a sound-side site in Beaufort County showed levels of bacteria exceeding the state and Environmental Protection Agency's recreational water quality swimming standards.
Published: Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 @ 3:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We have received several inquires about the reported resignation of a teacher at Washington High School. Specifically we have been asked why we have not reported on it.
Published: Friday, May 21st, 2010 @ 4:51 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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