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New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on Gov. Roy Cooper’s extension of COVID-19 economic restrictions. Becki Gray’s Daily Journal highlights creeping unionization in North Carolina.
Liberty
Cooper administration keeps NC dead last to report crucial death data to the CDC
DHHS continues to make NC dead last — and over a month behind all but three states — in reporting critical death data to the CDC.
Research Brief
Health Care
Cooper administration offers unconvincing case for requiring masks
Dr. Mandy Cohen, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) secretary, gave a presentation before the NC House Health Committee on June 17. This was the week before…
Education
Martin Center column highlights universities that appease China
Christopher Balding writes for the Martin Center about American universities’ ties to China. Long the vanguard of liberal change, the American university now leads the appeasement of a hardened authoritarian…
Elections & Public Integrity
Will Biden bypass debates with Trump?
Tristan Justice muses in a Federalist column about the possibility that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will skip out on debates. Joe Biden has shut down debates this cycle, using…
Elections & Public Integrity
Trump campaign to portray Biden as ‘Bernie Bro’
James Antle of the Washington Examiner highlights an interesting development in the president’s re-election strategy. Joe Biden may have won the Democratic presidential nomination, but the Bernie Sanders wing of…
Regulation
Gun sales continue surge
Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon documents another record for American gun sales. One of the country’s leading gun makers saw earnings triple as gun sales once again shattered…
Education
National Review editor takes on teachers unions
Rich Lowry of National Review Online describes what he calls the “shame” of teachers unions. No other group has shown as much contempt for its own work during the coronavirus…
Law & Public Safety
JLF antagonist Whitehouse labeled ‘conspiracy theorist,’ ‘hatchet man’
Dan McLaughlin of National Review Online profiles U.S. Sheldon Whitehouse, who once targeted the John Locke Foundation from the Senate floor. When Democrats want to threaten or delegitimize the federal…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Rick Henderson reports for Carolina Journal Online that North Carolina’s campaign money trail shows Democrats’ efforts to limit school choice. John Hood’s Daily Journal documents homicides spiking in N.C. cities.
Research Brief
Liberty
COVID-19 is a social justice Issue, just not in the way progressives claim
As the COVID-19 pandemic has worn on and shutdowns have crippled local economies, it has become abundantly clear that the impacts have not been felt equally. Some have been fortunate…
Education
NC DHHS: remote learning for NC Pre-K “an option of last resort and used as sparingly as possible”
Sorry, I just need to say it again. I’m amazed that the guidance for NC Pre-K sites is so different from the requirements for K-12 public schools. Just in case…