Education
Time For Conservatives To Stake a Claim For Safe Spaces
Think safe spaces are solely the purview of the Left? Watch Duke economist Mike Munger explain his view of safe spaces on university campuses – safe spaces for everyone. …
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Education
Trump administration questions Duke/UNC Middle East studies program
The AP reports: The Trump administration is threatening to cut funding for a Middle East studies program run by the University of North Carolina and Duke University, arguing that it’s…
Health Care
Appeals Court reverses lower court, gives Duke win in Wake County CON fight
A unanimous three-judge panel has reversed a lower court’s ruling and ruled that Duke University Health System should get a certificate of need to add an MRI machine in Wake…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Sam Hieb reports for Carolina Journal Online on a recent Duke forum designed to highlight the need for election redistricting reform. John Trump’s Daily Journal highlights a little-known piece of…
Liberty
Various and sundry reactions to HB2 and the NBA All-Star game…
Little sampling of the reaction to the NBA’s decision to pull the 2107 All-Star game from Charlotte over HB2: Gov. Pat McCrory: “I strongly disagree with their decision. To put…
Transportation
American Scholar highlights Duke prof’s infrastructure analysis
The latest issue of American Scholar cites the work of Duke professor Henry Petroski, whose latest book examines the state of American infrastructure. We asked the Duke professor and author…
Liberty
Gboro hates tourists…
….According to a Twitter analysis study, Greensboro ranks as the seventh-ranked tourist-hating city in the country. My gut reaction….tourists—-what tourists? “The only time I hate tourists is during A&T homecoming,”…
Liberty
Latest on Duke
Following a month or two of bad press and presumably better ideas in the press, representatives from Duke Energy addressed a crowd to share why they needed to build a…
Education
The Duke freshman’s Fun Home protest is actually quite reasonable
After earning media attention through a Facebook post on the subject, Duke freshman Brian Grasso elaborates in the Washington Post on why he opted not to read this summer’s common reading selection. Along…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
North Carolina counties awarded $284 million in targeted incentives from 2009 to 2014. Sarah Curry analyzes this number and other details from her first-of-its-kind compilation of county government incentives during…
Education
Guess Justise Winslow never saw this commercial
Duke has a great basketball program and deserves a fifth national championship. But I guess it’s the Tar Heel alum in me who wonders if Justise Winslow missed the 10…
Liberty
Dean Smith RIP
Coverage is overwhelming –N&R devoted pretty much all of today’s paper to the legendary coach. But the best tribute I’ve read came from none other Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski in…