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Durham wants me to pay rent on something I already own
I got a letter yesterday from Donald Long, the director of Durham’s Solid Waste Management department. In that letter he gave me, and everyone in Durham, I imagine, the good…
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Researchers focus on film incentives, Obamacare, and more plus other items of interest
The Kernersville News published John Locke Foundation Director of Regulatory Studies Jon Sanders‘ recent column panning state film incentives. N.C. Senate Republicans highlighted in their daily press email Sanders’ column…
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Bloomberg Businessweek fully engages the UNC scandal
Paul M. Barrett’s article today, “Four Blunt Points About UNC, College Sports, and Academic Corruption,” opens this way: The powers that be in North Carolina seem unable to accept that…
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Jan. 2: Carolina Journal’s 2014 Election Coverage Begins
The 2014 election cycle will be fascinating and consequential, and once again, carolinajournal.com will be your home for 2014 election news and commentary. National Democrats and Republicans will have their…
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Carolina Journal tackles Obamacare, closed-door meetings, and more
The N.C. Spin website promoted in the past week Carolina Journal Associate Editor Dan Way‘s two articles on the impact of an insurer’s decision to drop out of North Carolina’s…
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Other items of interest
The Constituting America website recently posted Troy Kickler’s essay on former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s thoughts about the value of a constitution. Kickler has been voted in to the…
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P.J. Hairston and Holloway Street
Jon Ham over a sister blog Right Angles knows Durham, which in case you haven’t heard is where UNC (and Dudley High School) basketball player P.J. Hairston was arrested and…
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Talking TABOR and other items of interest
WRAL Television’s coverage of the recent N.C. House committee debate about a Taxpayer Bill of Rights highlighted testimony from Becki Gray. Gray continues her semiweekly politics and public policy updated…
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Major newspaper notes Carolina Journal scoop on N.C. House voucher bill
The News & Observer‘s “Under the Dome” credited Carolina Journal for breaking the story of Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam’s plan to introduce an opportunity scholarship voucher bill for low-income students…
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Wake’s loss is Randolph’s gain
Wake County Schools interim Superintendent Steven Gainey has been named superintendent of Randolph County Schools. While Gainey had praise for the turbulent Wake school board, sister blog Right Angles can’t…
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Eugenics compensation, GOP rebranding, and other items of interest
A Winston-Salem Journal column about the prospects for a eugenics compensation bill in this year’s General Assembly cited John Hood’s support for the idea. The Journal also interviewed Hood for…
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Other items of interest
A Charlotte Business Journal profile of John Locke Foundation founding chairman Art Pope quoted John Hood. (Depictions of Pope as a Machiavellian mastermind amuse those close to him. “I call…