Education
Our schools need to look at some hard numbers
North Carolina is one of the fastest growing states in the nation. That’s a phrase we’ve heard frequently over the last few years. Evidence for it is in the increased traffic…
United States census
decennial census mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution
Liberty
Texas redistricting ‘breaks’ Democratic Party
Editors at Issues and Insights consider the impact of Texas’ ongoing redistricting controversy. Consider what has transpired in the past few weeks and ask yourself which political party is acting…
Liberty
Saying ‘Adios’ to Biden and Harris
John and Andy Schlafly write at Townhall.com about one impact of this week’s election. Mexico is reportedly delaying a vast horde of at least another 150,000 migrants at Tapachula, which…
Liberty
Illegal Immigration’s Potential Impact on U.S. House, Electoral College
Thomas Catenacci writes at FoxNews.com about the potential electoral impact of illegal immigration. Immigration experts are raising the alarm about how the increasing flow of migrants illegally crossing into the…
Liberty
Be Terrified! Watch WRAL Sensationalize a DHHS Data Dump
DHHS adds a glut of cases from Dec. 31 to Jan. 11. WRAL's danger-red "BREAKING" banner blares: "44,833 people in NC tested positive for COVID in the past 24 hrs."
Elections & Public Integrity
New North Carolina Congressional Map Splits Relatively Few Counties and Municipalities
Avoiding splitting political units (counties, municipalities, and precincts) was part of the criteria adopted by the General Assembly at the start of the redistricting process. Let’s see how well they…
Elections & Public Integrity
Maryland Democrats Draw Election Maps in the Dark
In contrast to N.C. Republican legislators’ open election redistricting process, their Democratic counterparts in Maryland are taking a less transparent approach. Matthew Foldi of the Washington Free Beacon reports. The…
Research Brief
Regulation
Partisan Activists Choose Posturing for Future Litigation Over Voter Participation
All On The Line, a program of Eric Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee, is seeking to use public hearings as a way to assist in future litigation of district maps.…
Elections & Public Integrity
Elections Director Wants To Delay All Municipal Elections. Why?
State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell is urging the General Assembly to give municipalities the ability to delay their local elections. But, as Locke’s Andy Jackson explains,…
Elections & Public Integrity
North Carolinians are Moving to the Suburbs, So How Will This Affect Elections?
This week, JLF’s Brooke Conrad reported on the changing demographics in North Carolina and how this could affect future elections. Conrad reports: From 2010 to 2018, the state’s overall population…
Law & Public Safety
French sides with Trump in census fight
Prominent anti-Trumper David French of National Review Online sides with the president in a legal fight involving the next census. There are times here in Year Three of the Trump…
Liberty
Daily Journal: Lawmakers should be rule makers, not cartographers
Carolina Journal‘s Rick Henderson writes for Daily Journal: Death and taxes aren’t the only two certainties North Carolinians face. New congressional and legislative districts are coming, too — for 2020…