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Political ideologies obviously wrap up education around specific policy reforms or even powerful quests to double down on the status quo
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2018 @ 8:15 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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With the economic collapse of the last decade brought on largely due to the bursting of the housing bubble, does anybody still think it a good idea for government to encourage investments in "underserved" populations
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The latest U.S. job report shows the official national unemployment rate dropping below 6 percent for the first time since before the recession
Published: Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 @ 12:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Two ultraliberal, out-of-state national groups are apparently flouting state law and violating Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules (§ 73.1212) in a campaign attacking legislators who favor bringing energy development and jobs to North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, September 24th, 2014 @ 4:57 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Now in its 30th year, the North Carolina Biotechnology Center uses taxpayer money in "support of biotechnology research, business, education and strategic policy statewide."
Published: Saturday, September 20th, 2014 @ 1:02 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Teacher pay. Medicaid. These are perhaps the two most contentious spending items in this year’s state budget. But continuing to fly under the radar is taxpayer-funded television programming.
Published: Monday, September 15th, 2014 @ 6:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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"I always want my students to start with facts, and the fact is Thom Tillis is terrible for education in North Carolina."
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 8:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Welcome back! I trust everyone had a good summer. We all need breaks and I hope you had a chance to unplug. You say that you were following Common Core until school let out. And now, well, you have no idea what's happened these last few months. No problem. It's time for a quick recap.
Published: Thursday, September 4th, 2014 @ 2:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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State government in NC is "cut to the bone" say progressive liberals.
Published: Monday, September 1st, 2014 @ 1:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Imagine talking with a friend who tells you that he's been forced to support the Duke basketball team for the past five years, even though he doesn't like the Blue Devils.
Published: Sunday, August 31st, 2014 @ 10:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Pat Hensley bristles at being called a politician, and until her June retirement she held a supposedly nonpartisan position as Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources for Catawba County Schools.
Published: Tuesday, August 26th, 2014 @ 10:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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News accounts of the recently-passed $21.1 billion General Fund budget focus primarily on the teacher pay raise provided by budget writers.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 10:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Recent comments from Rev. William Barber, self-appointed spokesman for the “Moral Monday” protests and leader of the NC state chapter of the NAACP, confirm that his vision for society endorses an aggressive use of violence against innocent individuals, and seeks to negate morality itself.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 6:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A parade of witnesses came to testify against North Carolina’s new voting reforms – but a look at their backgrounds shows they all have ties to the radical liberal network of groups known as Blueprint NC and/or have strong ties to the Democratic Party.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 12:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Trains are notoriously hard to slow down – even when we need them to.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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It is clear to any observer that the Federal government has grown to an untenable size, and that it has become increasingly more abusive of its powers.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 4:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A recent blog post published by a liberal organization outlines the experiences of two students who sought to acquire free state-issued voter photo IDs from the NC DMV.
Published: Sunday, August 3rd, 2014 @ 11:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The left has been howling about how the new voter reform law will discriminate against minority and young voters. Being a politically active college student myself, I decided to find out how hard it is to register to vote.
Published: Monday, July 28th, 2014 @ 4:16 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A hearing that liberal groups hoped would undermine North Carolina voting reform instead appears to have revealed their true objectives.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 6:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The News and Observer has come up with another delusion about Common Core State Standards: that the only explanation for opposition to the standards "is that [NC] GOP leaders are being led around by tea party extremists."
Published: Wednesday, July 9th, 2014 @ 10:58 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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At last week's government relations committee meeting for the Wake County School Board, school board member Jim Martin called current legislative efforts to correct Common Core problems "very much a political overreach." According to news reports, Martin then fired this shot...
Published: Thursday, July 3rd, 2014 @ 5:10 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) holds its "School's Out" rally, the Civitas Institute puts the spotlight on the gulf between teacher's salaries and NCAE executives' salaries.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:06 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A new "public-private partnership" in North Carolina appears to put hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars at risk while guaranteeing profit for a company that has run into trouble in other states.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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As a prior Army officer and Desert Storm Veteran, I have followed the VA hospital scandal with great interest, as I have earned the right to be cared for in the Veterans Administration system.
Published: Monday, June 23rd, 2014 @ 10:36 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Where can budget writers find savings to help fund priorities such as teacher raises? That’s a question on everyone’s mind these days.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 2:58 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The “Moral Monday” protestors, led by the state chapter of the NAACP, have a list of demands that, if implemented, would cost North Carolina taxpayers nearly $3 billion dollars now.
Published: Saturday, June 14th, 2014 @ 11:35 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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