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Three Dead Whales in Three Days
From Corolla, North Carolina, to Virginia Beach, Virginia, three dead whales washed ashore in three days in early March. Investigations and studies from environmentalists, whale conservationists, and concerned citizens argued…
Introducing the 2024 Civitas Partisan Index
With the ballot for the North Carolina General Assembly set, this is a good time to get a lay of the electoral landscape ahead of the general elections. With that…
Critics Claim School Choice Programs Damage the Public Schools Financially. What Do the Numbers Say?
Opponents of North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program claim that it damages the public schools financially. Is that claim true? Let’s take a closer look at the numbers behind this claim…
Rowan County Early Voting Site Left Unlocked
A concerned citizen forwarded an email to me earlier this week reporting that the Rowan County Board of Elections (BOE) office in Salisbury was left unlocked on the morning of…
Election Data Will Come Later, But We Will Still Know Results on Election Night
Unlike some states, North Carolina has traditionally reported almost all votes on election night. While that tradition will continue, a recent change in state law will shift back when most…
New Paper Shows the Practical Impossibility of Central Planning
Socialist systems distrust the spontaneous order in market distribution of goods and replace it with central planners — with notoriously worse results. A new paper tested the hypothesis that this…
North Carolina Early Voting Trends: 2024
North Carolina has started its final week of early voting, and with it, we should see a substantial increase in the number of ballots being accepted. This pattern is typically…
Demand for North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program Continues to Surge as Priority Deadline Approaches
A record number of parents across North Carolina have submitted applications for the state’s expanded Opportunity Scholarship voucher program this month. Families who have not yet submitted applications can do…
Responding to Outlandish Claims about the Opportunity Scholarship Program
North Carolina enhances school choice via vouchers in Pre-K programs for families to avail themselves of the many private and public Pre-K options across the state. North Carolina also offers…
The Heavy Toll of Government Environmental Policies on American Farmers
A new report from the Buckeye Institute finds that environmental policies harm farm workers. In the push for environmental sustainability and carbon neutrality, governments around the world have implemented various…
Bombshell: Electricity Customers and Taxpayers Are the Same People
My recent piece in Washington Examiner looks at the issue of massive subsidization of certain energy sources and then pretending they’re not expensive. It also criticizes the central planning behind…
Handicapping the Supreme Court’s Options in the Trump Disqualification Case
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold…