A stunning report by the State Board of Elections has revealed clear voter fraud in the 2012 election – evidently in tens of thousands of instances. The North Carolina State ... Keep Reading
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Teacher Pay: A Problem Money Can’t Fix
This article is Part I of a two-part series examining how North Carolina’s public school system pays its teachers. Teacher pay: It's a subject on the minds of many in North ... Keep Reading
Legislative Follow Up to Questions about Prisoner Health Care
There are many questions that are asked in legislative meetings and many times the staff notes that they will have to follow up with those questions at a later meeting. Some of ... Keep Reading
Why conservatives, too, should crave open government
The following article was adapted from an oped published today in the News & Observer. Newspapers, activists and all who care about open government recently celebrated ... Keep Reading
Civitas Statement to Common Core Study Committee
Below is a transcript of the comments made by Civitas Senior Policy Analyst Bob Luebke to the LRC Common Core Study Committee on March 20, 2014. Good morning to members of the ... Keep Reading
Another Look at NC Election Results
Elections can be viewed at many different angles, from analyzing voter turnout to interpreting vote totals. That's what consultants and candidates do to win races and election ... Keep Reading
What UNC’s Poverty Center Was Hiding
A public records request filed by the Civitas Institute confirms that the UNC Poverty Center continues to use publicly funded resources for blatantly political activities in ways ... Keep Reading
Making Sense of Teacher Pay
Do other professions require their "best" employees to give up an accomplishment to get a raise? Do other professions use raises to lure employees into giving up due process? ... Keep Reading
The Myth of ‘Trickle-Down Economics’
Pop quiz: what do you do when you are a politician who finds himself incapable of debating the merits of an opposing viewpoint? Answer: invent a viewpoint no one holds, critique ... Keep Reading
Cooper Should Practice What He Preaches
According to WRAL, Attorney General Roy Cooper is pressing Gov. Pat McCrory to roll back "special service charges" imposed on certain requests for public records. Maybe he ... Keep Reading
