Street violence has claimed the lives of far too many innocent Black children, and the current spike in violent crime makes the problem worse. Deploying more police officers to act…
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on the new chancellor named for Western Carolina University. Kristen Blair’s Daily Journal argues that it’s time for a reboot of online privacy…
Kella Hatcher will discuss the history and mission of the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force, a legislative study commission that brings together agency leaders, legislators, and experts in child health and…
From an investigation conducted by The Associated Press, Student-on-student sexual assault is not just a problem on college campuses. It threatens thousands of kids a year in elementary, middle and high…
School bus drivers are now providing hand signals to tell children when it is safe to cross a street. These are different from those of traffic cops or crossing guards.…
Apparently a six-figure sum is required. That’s the word from Elizabeth Harrington, who reports for the Washington Free Beacon. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending nearly $400,000 to…
We’ve seen it with school lunches, and with kids allowed to play on their own in parks. Now here’s one with parents who let their children walk home unsupervised. A…
Lawson Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute devotes his latest column at Human Events to 2015, “the year of the regulators.” They’ve been chomping at the bit during these days…
The Hendersonville Times-News reports an alarming number of children are injured by televisions falling on them. Six have died in the past year. The article encourages parents not to put…
Earlier this week I was nearly sideswiped by a car whose driver was distracted while driving nearly 70 miles an hour on the Durham Freeway. Was the culprit a phone?…
If the Chapel Hill nanny-staters were intellectually honest about their desire to get rid of driving distractions, they would stop obsessing over cell phones — which the town council will…
A week ago, I babysat an eight-year-old girl. She persuaded her mother to let her hang out with me, even though I told her I was going to the library…