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North Carolina students returning for the spring semester are facing a disconnected classroom environment, following a Jan. 1 state deadline that required all public school boards to enact strict bans on the use of smartphones and laptops during instructional time.
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2026 @ 6:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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European Central Bank Executive Board Member Isabel Schnabel contended that monetary policy should be used to accelerate the “green transition” as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell asserted the opposite.
Published: Monday, January 16th, 2023 @ 12:37 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the central bank will refrain from advancing social policy, especially with respect to climate change.
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2023 @ 10:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania added majors last month relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), as well as environmental, social, and governance factors for business (ESGB).
Published: Thursday, November 10th, 2022 @ 2:02 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Bureaucratism is fundamentally anti-democratic and illiberal. Unelected bureaucrats, rather than elected legislator make decisions that greatly impact their fellow citizens.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 12:57 am
By: John W. LaCava
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Only 43 percent of adults have a job, as inflation soars above 60 percent
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2022 @ 7:19 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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As explained in the previous installment in this series, the evidence clearly shows that police presence deters crime.
Published: Saturday, April 16th, 2022 @ 8:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A far-left coalition of groups in North Carolina calling itself “NC United for Survival & Beyond” (NCUSB) is back again
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 10:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Andrés Guilarte was sitting in a university lecture when a fellow student began crying and choking. Tear gas was seeping through a classroom window.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 @ 10:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina's economy is in reasonably good shape. Over the past five years of available data, our state's employers have added 480,000 net new jobs, with our job-creation rate exceeding the national and Southeastern averages
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2018 @ 3:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A report paid for by the N.C. Hospital Association and prepared by the Research Triangle Institute has, from an economics perspective, a number of flaws
Published: Saturday, August 26th, 2017 @ 3:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the inescapable consequences of writing a syndicated column on politics and public policy for nearly 30 years is that I am constantly told what I think and why I think it
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2016 @ 5:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The higher education establishment is growing worried about privatization. Should the rest of us do the same
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 10:10 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Freedom plays a critical role in boosting economic growth and personal income, including the incomes of the poorest members of society
Published: Saturday, July 25th, 2015 @ 11:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new report, funded by the North Carolina Chamber Foundation, makes what the foundation and the report's authors at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education obviously believe to be a strong case for new spending on highway infrastructure in North Carolina. The title of the study...
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 2:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new report, funded by the North Carolina Chamber Foundation, makes what the Foundation and the report's authors at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) obviously believe to be a strong case for new spending on highway infrastructure in North Carolina. The title of the...
Published: Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 @ 11:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Our sources in the lower chamber on Jones Street tell us that the vote on the gas tax hike / "revenue stabilization" nonsense that passed the GOP-dominated Senate with flying colors will face much more drama in the House.
Published: Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 @ 9:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Wake County officials insist the launch of another mass transit study is not an attempt to find a friendlier outcome just one year after three transit consultants determined the market couldn’t bear the costs of light rail.
Published: Thursday, December 18th, 2014 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of my favorite modern historians, the late Rufus Fears at the University of Oklahoma, was fond of saying that “ideas make history.”
Published: Friday, October 10th, 2014 @ 7:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In February, Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler declared that the North Carolina General Assembly had no authority to determine telecommunications policy in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 @ 9:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Assume North Carolina began a program to subsidize pyramid building, maybe because the population became convinced that pyramids had special healing powers and social benefits that would be spread to the entire population...
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina conservatives have embraced parental choice and competition as indispensable elements of education reform for decades. Now that conservatives are in the majority in state government, you can expect more proposals to...
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 8:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Any tax-reform bill that might move through the North Carolina General Assembly will address only state-level taxes. So the topic of my column today is unlikely to lead to any legislative action in the short run.
Published: Friday, January 18th, 2013 @ 7:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the "better late than never" file, some North Carolina leaders might be rethinking one of their worst policy decisions in recent years.
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2012 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the most controversial issues in the past few years has been the growing role of the state in providing preschool opportunities to North Carolina children.
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2012 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina could promote economic growth and wealth creation by replacing its existing personal income tax with a flat-rate consumed income tax.
Published: Monday, July 23rd, 2012 @ 1:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On August 4, a federal court in California struck down the gay marriage ban, popularly known as Proposition 8, and handed a victory to thousands of gays and lesbians.
Published: Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 @ 1:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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