Martin Center column probes UNC campus ‘transparency’
KC Johnson writes for the Martin Center about misuse of transparency in UNC Chapel Hill’s dealings with the campus newspaper. “Sunlight,” Justice Louis Brandeis once wrote, “is said to be…
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KC Johnson writes for the Martin Center about misuse of transparency in UNC Chapel Hill’s dealings with the campus newspaper. “Sunlight,” Justice Louis Brandeis once wrote, “is said to be…
Once again, when market choices don't square with their dictates, Raleigh's leaders choose to be on the cane-waving side of the "Keep off our lawn" news stories.
I haven’t read the latest National Education Association (NEA) “Rankings and Estimates” study, but the Herald Sun reports, North Carolina has jumped several spots to an estimate of 29th in the nation in…
The Herald Sun featured JLF’s Terry Stoops’ Carolina Journal column last week. In the column, Dr. Stoops questions whether or not some material being taught in public schools is appropriate…
J.J. McCullough explains at National Review Online why the future of editorial cartoons looks bleak. It is the opinion of Serena Williams’s husband — and, we assume, Serena Williams herself…
At a community forum last week, Durham Public Schools superintendent Pascal Mubenga said that, due to charter schools, “If Durham is not careful, its schools will become segregated like they…
The Herald Sun reports that the Durham County District Attorney has agreed to drop felony charges against the eight remaining defendants accused of tearing down and defacing a statue of…
Writing in Monday’s Herald-Sun, our Jon Pritchett makes the case for federal tax reform to help small business. I know firsthand how much small businesses would do with the kind…
Herald Sun reporter Greg Childress begins his deeply flawed article about subsidized teacher housing with a mention of “beginning teacher’s salary.” He writes, For Deja Young, the rent for an…
There was a report this morning of arson fires at several black churches that gave me a flashback to the summer of 1996, when I was still managing editor of…
The Herald-Sun had a story the other day about how the renovation of the American Tobacco Campus could not have been accomplished without historic tax credits. The officials interviewed for…
In August, KIPP Durham, a charter school for low-income children, will open. And members of the Durham County Board of Education are not happy about it. From an article in…