Visual representations of data help to illustrate the challenges facing North Carolina and the policies that have been proposed to meet these challenges. This page is updated as ... Keep Reading
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What Do Oregon and Mexico Have in Common?
In case you missed this on Drudge ...Some Oregon high schools are adopting Mexico's public school curriculum to help educate Spanish-speaking students with textbooks, an online Web ... Keep Reading
Civitas Poll Released Today
Poll in pdf. (Missed you today, Justin. Next time.) ... Keep Reading
Civic Illiteracy
Sadly, this years report on civic literacy among college students isn't much better than the last. I wrote about last year's here. Here's a slice, which I think still applies:It’s ... Keep Reading
#3 with a Bullet!
Wanted to thank all you readers out there who have made Red Clay Citizen the #3 "Most Influential" Political Blog in North Carolina according to the website ... Keep Reading
Demagoguery: Richard Moore is Grandstanding
Gubernatorial candidate Richard Moore is grandstanding about Countrywide, according to this Under the Dome post: In the letter Moore, writes that the company rewarded employees ... Keep Reading
Illegal Immigrants and Identity Theft
It’s often said that most illegal immigrants are decent, hardworking folks who only want to come to America to work. But what happens when they have to break the law in order to ... Keep Reading
Who Owns My Healthcare?
...For most Americans, it's either your employer or the government. N.C.'s resident political polymath John Hood argues that we need to un-skew the tax code and let Americans own ... Keep Reading
Pork Spending: Schofield’s Screed
Schofield over at Policy Watch can't even let our pork report go without shrieking his objections. In his "reality check," he attempts to compensate for his lack of ... Keep Reading
Fitzsimon on Transportation: Ignorance or Untruth?
Chris Fitzsimon thinks that $170 million in transfers from the HTF to the General Fund are justifiable because that amount was provided for in the original HTF legislation. He ... Keep Reading
