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Theresa Payton writes for Real Clear Politics about one positive impact of the Trump administration’s government efficiency initiative. Fresh from a run through federal agencies that saw budgets (and heads)…
The legislature may pass significant expansion of the Opportunity Scholarship Program in the budget bill. Growing public support for school choice is hard to ignore, and so is the failure…
Bruno Manno writes for Discourse about a welcome change in American employment. [E]mployers are turning from degree-based hiring to skills-based hiring — that is, from using college degrees to using…
Editors at Investor’s Business Daily welcome the end of the higher education bubble (discussed frequently in this venue). A good indication of a tightening labor market is the fact that…
Editors at USA Today use the sad story of Sears during this holiday season to remind us about the role of capitalism. The company that’s mostly an afterthought this Black…
It is well known that a huge part of the cost of labor for American business is health insurance. A small firm employing as few as 15 or 20 people…
View in your browser. Welcome How many teachers come to North Carolina to teach compared to those who leave for teaching jobs in other states? Should North Carolina be thinking…
View in your browser. Welcome I admit it. My wife is a Yankee social studies teacher who has taught in the North Carolina public schools for nine years. Sorry. She’s…
Alan Murray of Fortune magazine devotes his latest “Editor’s Desk” column to the fascinating story of Uber. … Uber has become its own genre in Silicon Valley. There’s an “Uber”…
WSJ reports on eight new faces in the US Senate. You can read about all of them here. Here’s what they had to say about North Carolina’s new senator, Thom…
The Durham County Republican Party is offering free rides to the DMV to any county resident who doesn’t have a photo I.D. to vote and wants to obtain one. An…
Once you get past the hyperbolic (and somewhat inaccurate) headline — “Duke Energy becomes latest employer to stop insuring retirees” — you learn from this News & Observer story that…