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View in your browser. Education Policy Last week, public school test scores were released. In this week’s newsletter, Terry Stoops, Director of Education Studies, offers a couple of explanations for…
Not long ago I pointed out a rather glaring flaw in President Obama’s notion that he is building an “iPod government” through fiat: We like our iPods ultimately because it’s…
Determined and dogmatic Linus van Pelt to Obamacare’s Great Pumpkin, the N&O had major news today: They have found an actual live human being, in North Carolina, who was able…
A sudden apostacy in Ezra Klein has led him to write about “How the iPod President Crashed: Obama’s Broken Technology Promise.” It opens thus: In the 2008 election, President Obama’s…
View in your browser. Education Policy In this week’s Education newsletter, Terry Stoops, Director of Education Studies, wrote about the remediation rate in North Carolina’s community colleges. While it’s down…
When the American Tobacco Trail was envisioned years ago, several wags in The Herald-Sun newsroom immediately dubbed it the Durham Mugging Trail, anticipating that scores of unarmed joggers with earbuds…
• Here come da (unknown) judge. The latest survey by Democratic firm Public Policy Polling shows Pat McCrory with a safe lead for governor over Walter Dalton and Barbara Howe.…
The GSA’s disgusting spending of our hard-earned tax dollars is absolutely sickening. Welcome to the federal bureaucracy, where bureaucrats rake in six figures and laugh at the suckers who pay…
If you fly much, you know that baggage fees are prevalent on many airlines. They say the fees are necessary to help pay for the rising cost of jet fuel.…
Ironically, “public” and “government” problem solvers can thank individuals and corporations for the inventions – iPod, Rubik’s Cube, light bulb, pencil/pen, and film – depicted in the graphic below. …
The always entertaining Sgt. D. Gunter, of Durham Police Department’s District 2, has offered the residents of Trinity Park some advice on how to prevent the kinds of thefts that…
Michael Barone‘s latest column notes that despite the president’s numerous stumbling blocks, Republicans who want his job must offer some compelling alternatives. So it’s possible that the Republican nominee, if…