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Why Focus on Funding Students and Not Systems?
Rather than try to redeem an unredeemable system, North Carolinians should embrace a superior model of governance: parental school choice
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
Cooper’s game of keeping NC not even in full ‘Phase 2’ yet
Gov. Cooper has descended into disreputable political theater regarding his orders, and small employers and workers are being crushed.
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NC bar owners file suit against Cooper over reopening
Charlotte Observer reports: A group of nearly 200 bar owners in North Carolina have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Roy Cooper in an effort to immediately reopen bars in the…
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RNC moving from Charlotte…..???
Both NYT and Charlotte Observer report Republicans are moving the “public portion” of the Republican National Convention out of Charlotte following President Trump’s tweets last night: …millions of dollars, and…
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Which fork in the road will the 2020 election take?
Interesting letter to the editor in today’s Charlotte Observer: Will we be lucky a third time? If Lincoln had not been elected would there be a United States? If FDR…
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We have not heard the last of Greg Lindberg
Charlotte Observer reports durham billionaire Greg Lindberg was found guilty of using the promise of millions in campaign money to bribe North Carolina’s insurance commissioner Mike Causey. Note the drama…
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Rush-hour delays on Charlotte’s blue line
I’m not going to touch the old adage about the guy who made trains run on time, especially since the Charlotte Area Transit Authority says Blue Line trains still run…
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Charlotte Housing Authority, aka ‘Inlivian’
Today’s Charlotte Observer editorial weighs in on the new name for the Charlotte Housing Authority: “Inlivian.” You don’t have to travel far on the internet to find some smirking about…
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An even closer look at Mecklenburg County’s proposed sales tax hike
JLF Vice President for Research and Director of Education Studies Terry Stoops posted earlier today on Mecklenburg County’s proposed quarter-cent sales tax hike, noting that it’s being promoted as “for…
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Enforcing ‘Save the Earth, Don’t give Birth’
Interesting letter to the editor in today’s Charlotte Observer, in its entirety below: Can someone explain to the protesting kids that governments never have been, nor ever will be, able…
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Charlotte greenway comes up $77 million short. Council members are stunned….
Outraged…..embarrassed…disappointed. Charlotte Observer reports the city’s Cross Charlotte Trail—a 26-mile pedestrian and bicycle trail from Pineville to UNC Charlotte—has a $77 million funding gap: Now, the plan’s future is murky,…
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Charlotte will allow more scooters—with more rules
Charlotte Observer reports the city will allow more electric scooters on its streets but with “rules to cap speeds, ban sidewalk riding from a big chunk of uptown and charge…