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In the wake of George Floyd’s death, most Americans agree that some reforms are needed for police departments and criminal sentencing laws. Some libertarian or right-leaning ... Keep Reading

State finances have improved dramatically over the last decade, but state employee pension and health benefit liabilities still loom large This is remaining residue from decades ... Keep Reading

Superior Court Judge David Lee, who now presides over the long-running Leandro case, should hit the “pause” button on school choice programs because they make it more difficult for ... Keep Reading

North Carolina’s state budget has nearly quadrupled in size in the last 30 years The budget grew more than four times as fast as population Irresponsible state legislators ... Keep Reading

It will be a fall unlike any in our lifetime. North Carolina must learn to live with a pandemic and its aftermath. Many questions hang over the reopening of schools this fall. One ... Keep Reading

After two days of riots across North Carolina, when Ed Nicely arrived to open Ed’s Gun Shop in the Moore County town of Vass there was already a line stretching into his parking ... Keep Reading

Thanks to a decade of wise, conservative fiscal policy, North Carolina state government is better positioned financially to weather the economic fallout from the coronavirus ... Keep Reading

Funding North Carolina Public Schools: Time for Change? Education is one of the state’s most important responsibilities. That importance is highlighted in the North Carolina ... Keep Reading

These are troubled times for our schools. The coronavirus response has emptied our school buildings, jumbled staff assignments and forced schools to pivot to online learning. ... Keep Reading

It’s not difficult to find bad policy examples from government-enacted lockdowns due to coronavirus, yet virtually none are worse than the idea of the federal government bailing ... Keep Reading