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The Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina: Medicaid Reform that Works for Patients, Providers, and Taxpayers Alike
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Exorcising Excise Taxes: Bringing Transparency to Hidden Taxes
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Health Care’s New Prescription: The Power To Heal Through Consumer-Driven Medicaid
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Elections & Public Integrity
Prepared Public Comment in Favor of a Citizen-Only Voting Constitutional Amendment
Below is my prepared public comment before the North Carolina House Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform Committee on June 5, 2024, in support of House Bill 1074, Constitutional Amendment/Citizens-Only…
Education
How Does a School District Go Broke with $1.1 Billion in Revenues? When It Spends $1.3 Billion.
That’s the title of a cautionary tale posted last week by Chad Adelman on the web site, The 74 Million. Adelman tells the story of how bad decisions and incompetence…
Research Brief
Education
Revised K–12 Healthful Living Standards Raise More Questions Than Answers
The North Carolina State Board of Education will decide whether to adopt new academic content standards for K–12 Health and Physical Education in June It’s unclear whether changes incorporated into…
Education
So How Did School Districts Spend Federal Covid Dollars?
That’s a question many have been asking over the last three years that the federal government has been distributing money to schools. Since 2021 North Carolina has received about $6.2…
Energy
Is a Bad Hurricane Season Because of Man-Made Climate Change? No
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season this year. The prediction hinges on “a quick transition to La Niña conditions, which are conducive…
Education
N.C. Public School Administrative Positions Skyrocketed While Enrollment Remained Mostly Flat
School Choice Opponents Invent False Excuses for Public Schools' Unproductive Spending Spikes
Elections & Public Integrity
Poll: North Carolinians Support Citizen-Only Voting in a Landslide
I noted last week why the North Carolina General Assembly should let a citizen-only voting constitutional amendment come up for a vote of the people: The state constitution should be…
Health Care
Medicaid Expansion Comes With Massive Fraud
Research shows more than 1 in 5 Medicaid dollars spent will be "improper payments"
Education
Opportunity Scholarship Expansion Hits a Snag in the North Carolina House
The last couple of weeks have been a roller coaster ride for proponents of North Carolina’s popular Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). On May 2 the North Carolina State Senate approved…
Education
Nearly 4 in 10 North Carolina Counties Lack Charter Schools, New Report Shows
May 12–18, 2024, is officially National Charter Schools Week in North Carolina. It should be a time of celebration for all the families across North Carolina who choose charters as…
Research Brief
Elections & Public Integrity
The North Carolina Constitution Should Limit Voting Rights to Citizens
Only U.S. citizens should be allowed to vote in North Carolina elections. North Carolina’s current protection of citizen-only voting is inadequate. We should add a citizen-only voting amendment to the…
Health Care
Expansion Rapidly Swells Medicaid Rolls
Extreme cost and enrollment overruns have been the norm for expansion states.