Amazon announced on Monday that the company would dismiss some 9,000 employees amid efforts to become more efficient.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 12:47 am
By: Daily Wire
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Amazon employees are furious as the company rolls back remote work arrangements, with some threatening to quit and others drafting petitions in reaction to a recent announcement that they must report to the office at least three times per week.
Published: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 7:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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New K-12 Science Standards for North Carolina schools were released last month, and the results are a mixed bag
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 8:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As green energy is failing around the world, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is claiming credit for the Democratic Party’s embrace of climate change chicanery as found in President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda.
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2022 @ 10:07 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Today is the 92nd birthday of arguably the most influential social and political theorist of our generation, Thomas Sowell.
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2022 @ 7:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina ranks among the bottom 10 states in the country on Politico’s new State Pandemic Scorecard. The Tar Heel State’s overall ranking of No. 41 combines high marks for health and the economy with low scores for social well-being and education.
Published: Monday, December 27th, 2021 @ 5:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Mysty Blagg’s twins, like most public school students in North Carolina, are falling behind.
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 @ 12:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Roy Cooper and Mandy Cohen claim to be following the “science and data,” while ignoring the data about the negative consequences of their shutdown orders
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2020 @ 7:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Chances are pretty good that you don’t have an extra $40,000 to throw away on new government-mandated expenses this year.
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 @ 4:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Mattie Duppler explains in a Washington Examiner column why the future of Social Security depends on an economic rebound.
Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2020 @ 3:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you’ve been searching for a silver lining behind the COVID-19 cloud, here’s a potential candidate: More people are focusing on trade-offs.
Published: Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 @ 5:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gary Salamido, president of the NC Chamber, is the lone business representative on Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-19 task force.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2020 @ 3:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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People across North Carolina and the US began receiving deposits from the federal government this week as part of the federal coronavirus relief package, known as the CARES Act.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 @ 7:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A February study released by the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) lays waste to the claims by Medicaid expansion advocates that expansion would translate into an economic boon for state hospitals.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 @ 12:50 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Not all pictures are worth a thousand words. But the picture of North Carolina’s new congressional map tells an important story.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 @ 8:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Remarks by President Trump on Honesty and Transparency in Healthcare Prices
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 2:48 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Recently I asked my 14-year-old son to identify the biggest problem at the public school he attends in Wake County. He didn’t hesitate to answer.
Published: Friday, November 15th, 2019 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Just one out of every four millennials demonstrates basic financial literacy.
Published: Thursday, May 9th, 2019 @ 11:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For several decades a growing chorus of voices has been insisting that government can become more efficient and effective if it were "run like a business."
Published: Wednesday, July 18th, 2018 @ 5:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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State lawmakers who want to see more bang for North Carolina's education bucks ought to consider shifting more spending decisions to the local level
Published: Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 @ 9:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Economist and N.C. native Thomas Sowell’s recent decision to end his syndicated newspaper column at age 86 has prompted this observer to revisit some of Sowell’s most compelling observations
Published: Friday, February 3rd, 2017 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In this age of cronyism and meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss partisan turnstile D.C. politics, maybe it really does take an "outsider" executive to give up power voluntarily
Published: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 @ 12:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Raising the government-mandated minimum wage to $15 per hour could cost North Carolina 334,000 jobs
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 5:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political pundits continue to debate the sources of Donald Trump's success during the 2016 Republican presidential primary process
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2016 @ 12:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Why do we call fussy government regulations "red tape"?
Published: Thursday, January 14th, 2016 @ 2:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's hard to reach the right conclusion when you start with false premises.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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