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New Carolina Journal Online features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online on Gov. Roy Cooper creating a new government job and filling it with an executive from a left-wing funding group. Ray Nothstine’s CJ…
Education
The Right AOC on Point: Educational choice increases in popularity, importance
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” discusses new Civitas Poll results showing the popularity of school choice in North Carolina. Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow her at…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Minimum wage increases hurt the poor
Two new studies confirm that a higher minimum wage would not be an unalloyed gain for low-wage workers. For their study, David Neumark and Peter Shirley “assembled the entire set…
Education
Civitas Poll: Disapproval for Cooper’s handling of schools
RALEIGH – After living for months under Gov. Roy Cooper’s restrictive rules that have forced most North Carolina public school kids out of the classroom and into online learning, many…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Cooper’s latest order includes a lame response to bar’s lawsuit
Yesterday, Jan. 27, Cooper issued another Executive Order that added a new section of justifications, clearly spurred by the lawsuit.
Research Brief
Education
Civitas Poll: North Carolinians love school choice and hate pandemic schooling
People overwhelmingly favor parents being in charge of their children's education, and Opportunity Scholarships had strong, bipartisan support. These findings should spur legislators to help parents by giving them more…
Education
NC School Choice: By The Numbers
How many charter schools are in North Carolina? Does the Opportunity Scholarship Program save money for taxpayers? Do North Carolinians support the idea of school choice? Find answers to those…
Liberty
Cooper creates new government job for executive of prominent left-wing funder
From a news release issued Wednesday, Jan. 27: North Carolina state government’s first philanthropy liaison will join Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration on March 1. The grant-funded role will focus on…
Liberty
Remembering Reagan’s Challenger speech
Thirty-five years after one of America’s saddest days, Tevi Troy revisits the president’s memorable response. On the morning of January 28, 1986, the U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded just over…
Education
Martin Center column highlights half-completed 1776 Project
Sumantra Maitra writes for the Martin Center about a Trump administration history program cut short by the incoming president. A short-lived report quickly torched by the new Biden administration provides…
Education
“they smack of a lot of leftist talk”
I pay close attention when I read or hear the words “leftist talk,” especially when it involves school-aged kids. The words I’m talking about now — “they smack of a…
Law & Public Safety
Militarized D.C. offers evidence of ‘panic porn’
Christopher Bedford of the Federalist assesses the impact of maintaining a high number of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital indefinitely. By Inauguration Day, some newspaper reports put the…