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Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon reports on a major corporation’s undue influence on one state’s public schools. In January 2020, Walmart approached public school administrators in Bentonville, Arkansas,…
Spencer Lindquist writes for the Federalist about the latest incident involving subterfuge and Critical Race Theory in schools. The Los Angeles Unified School District Office of Human Relations, Diversity &…
Recently, I was researching on an economic modeling company called Regional Economic Modeling, Inc., better known as REMI. REMI is one of several companies that produce economic models used by…
The N.C. Department of Public Instruction has published the first in a series of guides to understanding legal documents from Mexico. The audience for the PowerPoint and Word documents is…
The Polk County Commissioners approved renewing their economic development director’s contract. I am not putting Robert Williamson on trial, but any reader of this blog surely knows what I think…
The following rant is inspired by one of the 23 items on city council’s current consent agenda. If memory serves and interpolations were accurate, the matter came before council before,…
I despise land use public hearings. If I were famous, somebody could snip that quote to “destroy” me without reading further. Anyhoo, I support property rights. I do not like…
What better way to celebrate the season than to get on a donkey and ride to 35 Woodfin to pay your taxes? Unlike Herod, though, Buncombe County is giving you…
An amusing article in the latest Bloomberg Businessweek describes a game called Buy A Feature that helped residents of San Jose prioritize the city’s budget. Why is the story amusing?…
At the Buncombe County Commissioners’ last meeting, they announced they would be discussing their budget and sustainability plan at their next meeting. I wondered how much would be put online.…
Power Line Blog held a competition with a first prize of $100,000 for whoever could most effectively and creatively dramatize the significance of the federal debt crisis. All creative products…
Two weeks ago, researchers at Duke University released preliminary results of a study about pre-kindergarten programs in North Carolina. According to the press release, “North Carolina third-graders have higher standardized…