The Hood Challenge is Working and is a Fine Work in Progress
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2020 @ 3:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCORR helps storm survivors on the road to recovery and prepares the state for a more resilient future
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2019 @ 8:43 am
By: Governor's Office
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Last week, the Education Law Center published "Making the Grade 2019," a report that focuses exclusively on three categories of public school inputs: funding levels, distribution, and effort using data from the 2016-17 school year.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 4:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you think very rich people pay a lower share of their income in taxes than you do, you are very likely to vote for Democrats and to support a range of government interventions in the economy.
Published: Wednesday, October 16th, 2019 @ 7:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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About this time last year, progressive activists and Democratic politicians were trumpeting the news that North Carolina was 49th in the country in friendliness to teachers, according to a study by the website WalletHub.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 4:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Many people think of political debates solely in terms of left versus right. But some of the most interesting action today plays out within the competing camps dubbed “left” and “right.”
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2019 @ 5:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Those writing checks to the Beaufort County Government got the same disrespectful handling this year we got last year.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:41 am
By: Hood Richardson
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This weekend, Media Matters released a compendium of old Tucker Carlson quotes from the period 2006 to 2011 - a period during which Carlson routinely called into the shock-jock show Bubba The Love Sponge.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 @ 1:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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Candidates are lining up to run in 2020 and we've heard those running on a more liberal or "progressive" platform, as well as those espousing a more conservative agenda.
Published: Monday, February 4th, 2019 @ 8:27 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The NC Justice Center is the preeminent progressive think tank in North Carolina. The organization describes itself as a "progressive research and advocacy organization."
Published: Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 @ 4:31 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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No matter which party triumphs in tomorrow's midterm elections, we're likely to learn the wrong lessons
Published: Thursday, November 8th, 2018 @ 7:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Wednesday, Yascha Mounk, lecturer on government at Harvard University, wrote a fascinating piece for The Atlantic regarding a new study from Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Miriam Juan-Torres and Tim Dixon, titled Hidden Tribes: A Study of America's Polarized Landscape.
Published: Saturday, October 20th, 2018 @ 6:34 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The assessment in question was the 2017 version of the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) - commonly referred to as the nation's report card
Published: Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 @ 11:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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There is a familiar kind of political argument that goes something like this: "I know we are politically divided. I think that partisanship has its place - but surely there is no need to make [fill in the blank] a partisan issue."
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2018 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 600-acre waterfront property in Southport set aside for a state-run "megaport" remains vacant and the N.C. State Ports Authority has no plans to develop or sell it
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2018 @ 4:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. William Brisson, D-Bladen, said he is switching to the Republican Party because Democrats have become too progressive
Published: Friday, October 27th, 2017 @ 5:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrats, progressive activists, and left-leaning editorialists haven't liked past ideas from Republicans to change the way North Carolina's elections are run
Published: Tuesday, October 10th, 2017 @ 1:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ever since North Carolina enacted a major tax reform package in 2013, left-of-center politicians and pundits have lamented the disappearance of a progressive income tax
Published: Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 @ 10:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The annual testing data and report cards for North Carolina's public schools are out
Published: Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 @ 12:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What some hyperpartisans now call "fake news" is in many instances neither fake nor news.
Published: Monday, July 3rd, 2017 @ 11:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are just as many fads in politics as there is in other fields of human endeavor, from entertainment to home remedies
Published: Friday, May 5th, 2017 @ 7:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The obstructionists and obstructionists must stop and for the good of the country, they need to give President Trump a chance to make government accountable and workable again.
Published: Saturday, April 29th, 2017 @ 2:18 am
By: Diane Rufino
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What do the $15 minimum wage, Obamacare, and proposed gun control laws all have in common? Of course, we could say, uncontroversially, that they are all policies supported by progressives and at least in part form the backbone of modern day progressivism's policy agenda
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In order to do away with the Clinton corruption and enact serious reform in Washington, we have to make the right decision on Tuesday.
Published: Saturday, November 5th, 2016 @ 2:27 pm
By: Ryan Case
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Is There a Formula to Charter School Success?
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 @ 10:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory's Press Office issued the following statement from Press Secretary Graham Wilson
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2016 @ 1:11 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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A little dated, but not much. If you check the names of the jackasses currently sitting on the floor of the Congress protesting your 2nd Amendment right to defend yourself, you will find that many are included in a list of Democratic Socialists.
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 @ 1:53 am
By: John Pizzo
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Government requires money to do its work. Anarchists disagree. But for the vast majority of us, the real debates involve, first, how much money government needs and, second, how government ought to collect that money
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political progressives aren't the only ones who see value in adding more "progressivity" to the state's personal income tax. A Republican-sponsored bill that won unanimous support last week in the N.C. Senate would accomplish that goal
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 7:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Center For American Progress recently released a so-called "study" pegging the economic losses facing North Carolina over its bathroom privacy law at over half a billion dollars.
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2016 @ 12:21 am
By: McCrory Communications
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As I have often noted, higher education has its critics both on the right and the left.
Published: Wednesday, May 25th, 2016 @ 3:16 am
By: John William Pope Center
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