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Billion-Dollar Tax Hike: Legislative Leaders Consider Spend and Tax Mash-Up?
Education
Mooresville Needs a Mulligan: The city government has no business being in the golf business
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Smokes, Booze … and Electricity? A new sin tax on electricity could be on its way
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Liberty
What Has Happened To Joe Biden?
While others got angry watching President Biden’s vitriolic, over-the-top speech about what he terms ‘voting rights,’ I felt something much different. My heart nearly broke. My stomach felt queasy. I…
Liberty
Be Terrified! Watch WRAL Sensationalize a DHHS Data Dump
DHHS adds a glut of cases from Dec. 31 to Jan. 11. WRAL's danger-red "BREAKING" banner blares: "44,833 people in NC tested positive for COVID in the past 24 hrs."
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Law & Public Safety
The Late 20th Century Crime Wave Was a Disaster for Blacks and the Poor
Crime rates soared between 1960 and 1980 and remained high throughout the rest of the century, making fighting crime and restoring order national priorities. The burden of crime and disorder…
Liberty
McCrory Leads North Carolina’s GOP Senate Primary Race, Budd Leading Head-To-Head
Civitas Poll: Half say Trump endorsement likely to determine their vote January 13, 2022 RALEIGH – Former president Donald Trump has already stepped into the race to replace retiring North…
Elections & Public Integrity
Legislature Motions for the Recusal of Justice Earls in Upcoming Redistricting Case
Following the three-judge panel’s ruling on North Carolina’s latest Redistricting case yesterday, the North Carolina Republican-led Legislature has filed a motion that North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls recuse…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Why Focus on Funding Students and Not Systems?
Rather than try to redeem an unredeemable system, North Carolinians should embrace a superior model of governance: parental school choice
Education
Can covid help to reform teacher pay?
Chad Adelman and Katherine Silberstein of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University seem to think so. That’s the topic they tackle in a new Edunomics brief. Adelman and Silberstein correctly…
Liberty
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending January 10
Image source: Screenshot from a Youtube video posted Jan. 8 featuring happy crowds enjoying the NC Chinese Lantern Festival at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, which does not require masks…
Liberty
What To Know About The Election Map Court Ruling
It’s a huge court win from a bipartisan panel of judges. On Tuesday, a unanimous three-judge panel (2 Republicans and 1 Democrat) upheld North Carolina’s newly drawn election maps for…
Liberty
Tillis Calls Out Democrats’ Filibuster Hypocrisy
As the Democrats – led by President Joe Biden – seek to cut off half of America from the debate and have their way in the U.S. Senate with 51…
Elections & Public Integrity
Judges Uphold Constitutional Separation of Powers in Redistricting Case
Even if the plaintiffs' had not failed in all of their constitutional claims, they still would have lost.
Elections & Public Integrity
“Ballot Secrecy is Incompatible with Secure Mail-in Balloting”
With mail-in voting, you can have secret ballots or you can have secure ballots, but you cannot have both.