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How “swingy” are North Carolina General Assembly districts?

Government housing for teachers and public employees is not the solution to Wake County’s housing problem

Reflections from North Carolina’s Covid Generation

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The truth about universal coverage, part one

What do teachers think about K-12 education and school choice?

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High power bills? Blame bad state policies, not data centers

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Questioning Trump’s dependence on ‘silent majority’

James Antle of the Washington Examiner highlights a potential flaw in President Trump’s re-election strategy. President Trump is staking his reelection on a “silent majority” of people who he believes…

Teachers’ unions block plans to reopen schools

Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights union efforts nationwide to stifle the reopening of public schools. Teachers’ unions across the United States are resisting a push from the…

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Media wages war on words

David Harsanyi laments at National Review Online efforts within major media outlets to dictate the words people use. I recently ran across a piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer that lays…

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Chile raises questions about technocracy

Mathis Bitton writes at National Review Online about one South American nation‘s experience with technocratic government. On paper, Chile is Latin America’s most developed economy and most stable democracy. In…

This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio

You’ll find plenty of “cracks, potholes, and detours” in North Carolina’s state transportation budget. Those are the words Joseph Coletti uses to describes transportation budget problems. He explains why in…

New Carolina Journal Online features

Lindsay Marchello and Kari Travis of Carolina Journal Online review the week in N.C. politics. John Trump’s Daily Journal responds to legislative efforts to ease ABC license renewal requirements.

The Right AOC on Point: Uncertainty about N.C. school plans could lead parents to alternatives

John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” explains how Gov. Roy Cooper’s indecisive approach to reopening N.C. schools could affect school choice. Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow her…

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Veto/Override Review; Short Session Edition – *Updated with roll call votes on overrides

****UPDATED JULY 9****** Wrapping up the 2020 Short Session, NCGA adjourned about 3:00 am on June 26 sending a flurry of bills to the Governor to sign. Since they did…

COVID hospitalizations in context

At 1,034 hospitalizations, we're about one-twelfth of the best-case scenario hospitalizations projected now. Taken in context, this scary number is good news, not bad.

North Carolina teachers are calling for a strike

Once again, some North Carolina teachers are calling for a strike. Will the N.C. Association of Educators indulge their fantasy?

Media, academia help the left wage the culture war

Sumantra Maitra writes for the Federalist about a good place for conservatives to start addressing damage done in the culture war. The day President Trump defended Walt Whitman at Mount…