Newly released today from the Center for the Study of Free Enterprise at Western Carolina University: The Center for the Study of Free Enterprise at Western Carolina University has issued…
This week, JLF’s Jon Sander’s published a research brief on film incentives prompted by a statement Gov. Roy Cooper released this week: [H]is press release announc[ed] the creation of a “Governor’s Advisory…
Imagine you’ve been given the task to argue that an industry needs government support to survive. How do you think you’d make that case? Would you: Start by calling the…
Gov. Cooper's office wants to justify direct handouts ("grants") and tax cuts ("tax incentives") to just one industry — film productions — because they'd patronize small businesses in North Carolina.
A new study from Western Carolina University's Center for the Study of Free Enterprise asks "What Do Film Incentives Mean for North Carolina's Economy?" After spending over $404 million, North…
The John Locke Foundation and Western Carolina University’s Center for the Study of Free Enterprise co-sponsored a panel discussion this week on the future of judicial selection in North Carolina.…
Jane Bone’s “Ghosts of the material world in early childhood education: Furniture matters” published in Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood is, um, fascinating. This philosophically driven work is intended to…
Saith the Smoky Mountain News: Fears that a controversial economics policy center coming to Western Carolina University will be a vehicle to advance conservative, laissez-faire market theories have been partially…
Saith the Smoky Mountain Times: Western Carolina University Chancellor David Belcher had a heart-to-heart with university faculty last week about the controversy over a politically charged financial gift to WCU…
Last week, I wrote an article entitled “The Sad History of Freshman Reading,” which detailed recent summer readings at NC schools. It turns out that summer reading hasn’t always had…
Is Camarda from Boston or New York? Maybe he really did say “gahd.” UPDATE: Queens would do it.
Jeff, in fairness to the provincial Mrs. Vilsack, I’m not sure that Iowans speak with the same accent as that exaggerated in Fargo. The Iowans that I know ? including…