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With the 2009-10 General Assembly reconvening on Wednesday, Jan. 28, here are five big questions that will set the tone for the upcoming session. How strong of a force will ... Keep Reading

How Your Tax Dollars are Being Used to Fund Comprehensive Sex-Ed Originally published here in Family North Carolina Magazine—January/February 2009 By Amanda Abbott Current ... Keep Reading

North Carolina currently mandates that all students from kindergarten to 9th grade be taught a “comprehensive school health education program” that includes instruction ... Keep Reading

The Civitas Institute conducted a poll immediately after the election. After finding out for whom the voters cast their vote, we then asked them why they did not vote for the other ... Keep Reading

The Civitas Institute conducted a poll immediately after the election. After finding out for whom the voters cast their vote, we then asked them why they did not vote for the other ... Keep Reading

The Civitas Institute conducted a poll immediately after the election. After finding out for whom the voters cast their vote, we then asked them why they did not vote for the other ... Keep Reading

Unaffiliated voters are registering in record numbers, rivaling Democrats in their weekly increase in registration. There are 1.3 million unaffiliated voters – 22 percent of ... Keep Reading

Frustrated with federal inaction, a growing number of states and localities are discovering that, as sovereign entities, they already possess the authority to enforce U.S. ... Keep Reading

Fifty-three percent of North Carolina’s $21.3 billion FY 2008-09 state budget is devoted to funding education programs.  The FY08-09 state budget provides $11.4 billion, ... Keep Reading

Local governments throughout Wake County recently made it more difficult for working families to make ends meet. At a time when rising gas and food prices are stretching household ... Keep Reading