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Democrats Start with Strong Chance to Make Further Gains, GOP Likely, to retain Majority
Published: Saturday, January 11th, 2020 @ 2:18 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Fact checking WRAL's teacher pay documentary
Published: Tuesday, August 9th, 2016 @ 5:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Governor Pat McCrory and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper are both opponents of excessive and duplicative standardized testing. Surveys suggest that parents, teachers, and administrators believe that "over-testing" is a problem
Published: Saturday, August 6th, 2016 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Common Core Standards is a private and federal initiative to reform public education into one that spits out workers, not thinkers
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Those of us who consider ourselves moderates are following our state's current events with interest and no small measure of amusement.
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 12:09 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The liars in the remnants of our state's mainstream media would have you believe state government was working like a charm prior to the January 2013 inauguration of Republican governor Pat McCrory.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 12:56 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Tesla Motors Inc. was in trouble in North Carolina. Prohibited from opening showrooms there, it was on the way to being unable to sell cars at all when the state Senate voted unanimously to block online auto sales.
Published: Sunday, December 1st, 2013 @ 9:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, the US Supreme Court has stripped key provisions out of the federal Defense of Marriage Act - which kept the feds from paying benefits to "married" gay couples.
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2013 @ 10:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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How many North Carolinians know that public school education in the state is centered around the government's Common Core initiative?
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 9:15 am
By: Diane Rufino
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One stark difference between the GOP Senate budget plan and the one proposed by Republican Gov. Pat McCrory is money to compensate victims of North Carolina's eugenics program.
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013 @ 1:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This past election brought changes to how government works in North Carolina. Of course, there are still the House and Senate chamber (legislative branch), the Governor's office (executive branch), and the Courts (judicial branch). What happened to each of those is noteworthy.
Published: Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 @ 1:31 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Virtual charter schools and other distance-learning options would be unshackled from the legal-political bind in which they remain idled if Lt. Gov.-elect Dan Forest has his way.
Published: Thursday, December 27th, 2012 @ 9:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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