decennial census mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution
On opening day of the 2019-20 General Assembly, we heard lots of promises of collaboration. There are opportunities to work together; finding a budget that meets the state’s needs while…
Christian Britschgi of Reason delivers disturbing news to anyone who has watched the proliferation of bike lanes in Raleigh and other cities. Despite spending millions of dollars on hundreds of…
Matthew Klein of Barron’s exhibits less concern than other observers about Social Security’s long-term viability. Still, Klein points out factors that could mean bad news for the program’s future. The…
Susan Crabtree of the Washington Free Beacon details former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to avoid a tax bill. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), who often rails…
In 2012, residents of Rocky Mount started hearing about plans for an event center. The city council was talking about a project that would spur downtown economic development and regeneration,…
Walter Williams‘ latest column at Human Events focuses on the nationwide challenges to voter identification laws. Voter ID laws have been challenged because liberal Democrats deem them racist. I guess…
I had an inkling I never bothered to research until last night. I had often wondered how Asheville’s AMI is around $40,000 when nobody I know – except the trust…
Vox.com has put U.S. population by state from each decade’s census from 1910 to 2010 in a single chart. Fascinating. A highlight: In 1910 North Carolina was 16th in population,…
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek offers this over-the-top headline: “The 23-Year-Olds Will Save America.” (The online version here comes with a different take on that theme.) Despite the exaggeration, the article…
Perhaps you’ve read that governments are shedding jobs as the private sector makes employment gains. As Barron’s “Economic Beat” columnist Gene Epstein says in his latest piece, the implication is…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal on the unanimous decision by a three-judge panel, which ruled that the new election maps drawn by Republicans following the 2010 U.S. Census are…
View in your browser. A few weekends ago, I decided it was time to paint our living room. It made me start thinking about home ownership and how the recent…