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One area where the new majority in the General Assembly is likely to take quick action is charter schools. Established in 1996, charter schools were intended to allow schools the ... Keep Reading

The late Nobel-prize winning economist Milton Friedman once famously observed: “Nobody spends someone else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s ... Keep Reading

On November 2 North Carolinians voted for a complete change in legislative leadership for the first time in over a century. Yet the fiscal problems facing North Carolina are huge. ... Keep Reading

The results of the 2010 North Carolina election brings in a wave of new state legislators for the 2011 term. Because of the tremendous amount of change in the upcoming legislative ... Keep Reading

In the recently completed election season, every candidate promised to be the one to trust to "create jobs." Indeed, in spite of some pretty heated rhetoric, jobs remained the ... Keep Reading

This article was written by Jeff Hunt, District Attorney for Prosecutorial District 29B. He has been a DA since 1995. This article originally appeared in the October issue of ... Keep Reading

To demonstrate the enormity of the impending budget shortfall, consider this: if the University of North Carolina System was not appropriated a single dollar next year, the state ... Keep Reading

See just how big the change was ... Keep Reading

The crushing weight of North Carolina's Medicaid costs continue to encumber state finances amidst an historic fiscal crisis, and sources say it is about to get much worse. With ... Keep Reading

The map below reflects how much it costs taxpayers in various school districts to produce one high school graduate. This map is a visual representation of the figures used in the ... Keep Reading