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Joy Pullmann of the Federalist has advice for young adults considering college. The “everyone should go to college” mantra is brittle, false, failing, and harmful. Deep down, we all know…
North Carolina K-12 public schools have received close to $6 billion in Covid-19 relief funds A new analysis finds school districts have about 75% of Covid funds unspent, and although…
Do you want to hear some good news? John Hood writes for Carolina Journal’s Daily Journal: The past three decades have brought one of the largest improvements in living standards in…
Asheville is generally regarded as a hip city, with an active local music scene and lots of local breweries. It’s the sort of place that if you believe in the…
Deroy Murdock uses his latest column at National Review Online to explore recent attacks on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s record. Hillary Rodham Clinton shed her usual sunny demeanor last week…
Alex Adrianson highlights for the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” blog an interesting analysis of union wages. You may have heard that workers in right-to-work states make less money than workers…
A New York Times article from yesterday titled, “Where are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.?” shows a county breakdown of the hardest places to live in the…
I came across this graph today on Zerohedge. That’s an increase in median income of 24% since 1970, compared to an increase in federal spending of 288% over the same…
Even Conservative Buncombe County is looking into government-subsidized workforce housing. According to the staff report, persons earning between 80 and 140% of median income – that’s right, 140% of median…
All of North Carolina’s Republicans (Walter Jones, Virginia Foxx, Howard Coble, Robin Hayes, Sue Myrick, Patrick McHenry) voted against overriding President Bush’s veto of the SCHIP legislation, which, as written,…