Education
Voucher Critic Flubs the Numbers
Kris Nordstrom is at it again. In a recent article commenting on the Opportunity Scholarship Program, Nordstrom alleged that “many private schools in N.C. have more vouchers than students.” He…
Data Integrity
Liberty
Highlighting Misleading Data About the COVID Pandemic
Stacey Lennox writes at PJMedia.com about new developments in our knowledge about COVID-19. To competently manage any situation, accurate information is a requirement. Americans require precise data about the COVID…
Liberty
Chinese COVID Statistics Deserve Much More Scrutiny
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online urges the rest of the world’s governments to question China’s implausible COVID numbers. To hear China tell it, they have barely had any cases…
Elections & Public Integrity
State elections board updates gender, race and ethnicity data for 180,000 voters
When I look at the voter registration changes numbers at Carolina Transparency, I am usually interested in changes in party registration. But what caught my eye this week was a…
Health Care
Locke’d & Loaded w/Amy Cooke: COVID Death Toll and Murky Data
In this week’s edition of Locke’d & Loaded, CEO Amy Cooke addresses a key question about how many Americans have actually died of Covid. Oftentimes what is listed as a “Covid…
Health Care
DHHS still reports deaths from 2020 as “new” Covid deaths
DHHS reported more "new" Covid-19 deaths the past week that occurred between August 2020 and February 2021 (35 or 47%) than it did in May–June 2021 (33 or 44%). Nearly…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The NC Threat-Free Index for the week ending March 15
All things considered, nearly 99.7% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone — a virus most had never had and the rest had recovered…
Health Care
What are we missing because of DHHS’s delinquent data reporting?
How can public health officials know if and what kind of health crises North Carolinians are facing — and be able to take action quickly in response — when our…
Health Care
UNC economist Zelder questions Cohen’s math
UNC economist Martin Zelder submits the following commentary: Roy Cooper and Mandy Cohen keep telling us that they are making coronavirus policy decisions based on “science.” But if the data…
Education
Inflating school shooting numbers
David French of National Review Online ponders the U.S. Department of Education’s recent report on the number of school shootings across the United States. [A]long comes the Department of Education…
Education
NPR: Two-thirds of reported school shooting incidents never happened
Kudos to NPR for doing some old-fashioned investigative journalism. NPR reporter Anya Kamenetz writes, This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, “nearly 240 schools…
Elections & Public Integrity
Feds falling down on job of reviewing manipulated energy data
Ethan Barton of the Daily Caller reports that the government has yet to review years of manipulated energy-related data linked to a federal agency. A U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) program…