School choice critics claim that choice puts students up “for sale” But big businesses profit handsomely from the government education establishment, often as a result from ... Keep Reading
Certification Requirements Keep Good Teachers Out
Many states, including North Carolina, are suffering from a teacher shortage Teaching certificates are a barrier to entry for teachers, making it more difficult for people to ... Keep Reading
CLC Highlights Conservative Wins and Challenges
If the 2017 Conservative Leadership Conference had one theme, it was that while 2016 brought landmark victories for conservative causes, this year has brought a pushback by the ... Keep Reading
How The Fed Endangers the Economy
Editor's note: The American Spectator is running an article by Bob Luddy, President of CaptiveAire Systems and Chairman of the Civitas Board of Directors. In it, Mr. Luddy explains ... Keep Reading
Stop Roy Cooper from a Lawless Expansion of a Failing Welfare Program!
Roy Cooper has announced his intention to expand Medicaid by executive action. Expanding medicaid is not only illegal under existing state law, but is bad policy for the health of ... Keep Reading
What Do People Like the Most about NC?
Our most recent poll asked North Carolinians what they like best about living in North Carolina. As you can imagine, they saw a lot of different things to love about the Old North ... Keep Reading
Voters’ Own Words on the Elections
Our October 2016 poll asked voters to say, in two or three words, what they thought of the current elections. Most agreed, in one way or another, with the North Carolinian who ... Keep Reading
Civitas Calls for Action on Groups’ Campaign Spending
Is Roy Cooper taking money that should go to North Carolina’s schoolchildren and instead diverting it to liberal environmental groups? It turns out that some of these very same ... Keep Reading
Aug. 2016 Civitas Newspaper: Elections Heat Up
The August 2016 edition of NC Capitol Connection highlighted how Judge Mike Morgan was in line to rule on a case that could affect his candidacy for the state Supreme Court. Other ... Keep Reading
Civitas President Questions SBE Hiring Practices
Following a Civitas investigative report that revealed that Dr. E. Lee Cooley, a voter outreach specialist from the NC State Board of Elections (SBE), gave explicit instructions on ... Keep Reading
