Policymakers trusted to advocate for their communities must ask hard questions of businessmen, special interests, and consultants promising sure-winner community benefits if you agree to spend public money on their…
Cooper’s budget proposal is an unrealistic political document, not a serious budget plan. It would increase budgeted expenditures over the current year by 11.6 percent. The budget would direct hundreds…
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon tackles the political left’s goal of cutting back or ending police departments. The progressive left is increasingly agitating for the defunding of…
Hardly. This Urban Institute chart tells the story: H/T: CharlesFLehman
Rhino Times editor John Hammer has an update on “what must be Greensboro’s longest running project”—the Downtown Greenway: The current projection on the Downtown Greenway is that it will be…
Kevin Boyd writes for the Martin Center about Louisiana’s approach to “free” college. Louisiana is the poster child for a program that started with the best of intentions, but has…
Greensboro News & Recordreports the Greensboro-area Metropolitan Planning Organization voted to “boost the budget” by $4 million to widen U.S. 70 in guilford County to accommodate a planned Publix distribution…
According to the Statesville Free News, Iredell-Statesville Schools approved $1 million to build a facility that would wash their fleet of buses. One taxpayer thinks that it’s not money well spent. …
For starters, readers here in Greensboro have to turn to the weekly Rhino Times to get any information on Guilford County government because the daily News & Record has simply…
Almost a year and a half ago, I wrote about Cumberland County’s plans to divert money from the school system to build a ballpark in Fayetteville for the Single-A Advanced…
Roy Cordato writes for the Martin Center about flaws in a new economic impact study promoting UNC-Asheville. Too often, universities use studies about themselves as marketing opportunities rather than a…
Anthony Hennen’s latest Martin Center column focuses on the recent UNC system discussion about the number of campus staffers devoted to “diversity.” In June 2017 the North Carolina General Assembly…