Education
Wake Tech and a ‘Koch-funded’ speaker
Kelly Markson writes for the Martin Center about a recent community college event featuring a “controversial” speaker. By now you have heard the story. It plays out like a script.…
Institute
organizational body created for a certain purpose
Liberty
Federalist columnist warns of ‘Marxist moment’
The recent success of Thomas Piketty‘s dubious economic tome prompts Federalist columnist Marion Smith to focus on the lingering appeal of Marxist madness. The recent disputes over Thomas Piketty’s glaring…
Education
Changes needed to the early education certification law
S.L. 2010-178 is a law that imposes burdensome and costly certification requirements on child care and early education teachers and providers. The law mandates that teaching staff and providers working…
Education
Performance pay, CMS style
View in your browser. Welcome In this week’s CommenTerry, I discuss House Bill 546, a bill that would allow the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) to establish a performance-pay program. Should the…
Liberty
The great global warming debate–Hickory, NC, Feb. 11
For a couple years now the John Locke Foundation has been trying to get local global warming alarmist organizations to co-sponsor a debate on the topic. Finally an institution has…
Liberty
Political science vs. economics
How unsurprising — a mainstream news media outlet (this one the Asheville Citizen-Times) finally takes a look at the absurd economic claims coming out of the North Carolina Climate Action…
Liberty
More Fun With Global Climate
This is a great story on the REAL heat wave, the one that took place in 1930: “From June 1 to August 31, 1930, 21 days had high temperatures that…
Liberty
Taking Care of Business
On the business side of things, Director of Local Innovation, Chad Adams, in conjunction with John Hood, will be releasing the third climate survey of business leaders statewide. The survey…
Liberty
Conservative Disapproval
John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge counter the malaise on the nation’s right in this morning’s Wall Street Journal and their column, together with a roundtable on the radio yesterday, reminded…
Liberty
Students protest tuition cut
That’s according to the Chronicle of higher Education (pay site) today. Can you imagine this happening here? quote ———————– The government said on Thursday that annual tuition and living costs…