Liberty
Fixing America’s chip ‘crisis’
Cory Gardner writes at National Review Online about a technological challenge for America. The United States is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure. In the process, however, we are…
Wi-Fi
family of wireless network protocols, based on IEEE's 802.11 standards
Budget, Taxation & Economy
How Will North Carolina Spend Federal Covid Relief?
Tucked into the new state budget are billions of dollars from Washington for Covid relief. The American Rescue Plan Act, for example, sent $5.4 billion to the state. These funds…
Research Brief
Education
North Carolina’s COVID-19 Response: K-12 Education
On March 14, Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order that directed all public schools to close to students for at least two weeks. He further directed the N.C. Department…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Time To Say Goodbye To Raleigh’s Free Downtown Bus Service?
Some things last, and some things don’t. Beyonce’s 2008 single “Single Ladies” is an enduring song. “Shut Up and Let Me Go” by The Ting Tings is not. Raleigh continues…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Is Public Broadband the Answer, Or Can Private Markets Do a Better Job?
Writing at fayobserver.com (the online Fayetteville Observer), JLF President and CEO Kory Swanson joins the Mercatus Center’s Brent Skorup explains why the idea of more government involvement in the providing of…
Liberty
$20m for Gboro Coliseum complex
As you’ve probably noticed much of the focus here in Greensboro has been on HB2, with the City Council’s raucous debate before passing a resolution opposing the bathroom bill. With…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
What’s in the budget compromise?
Below is the breakdown of the budget compromise between the House and the Senate from a press release that was sent out today after the joint press conference. House Speaker…
Liberty
Maybe I’m the EMP
Today feels like Atlas Shrugged. I visited multiple places with Wi-Fi to try to find a working hotspot. I was unsuccessful. The first place was a restaurant where the hostess…
Liberty
Tech rules ACC Tourney
N&R front-pager: In 2017 at the Barclays Center in New York, if the tournament lands there as has been reported, fans would be able to see views of the game…
Liberty
GCS tablets: Different moods, 100 percent failure
Tablet manaufacturer tells Guilford County Schools not our chargers. “Based on the testing completed on the tablets and chargers, Asus does not have any safety concern regarding these products, and…
Liberty
Don’t Want No More Stinkin’ Wire
The Jackson County Commissioners turned down an application for $1 million in public funding for an internet company. It isn’t that they don’t believe that wealth transfers spur the economy;…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Another reason to like Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was no conservative, but Thomas G. Donlan‘s latest Barron’s column notes that the genius behind Apple understood the impact of high tax rates on his efforts to create…