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NCInnovation: Time to Pump the Brakes on This Unproven Experiment?
A change in budget bill language restricted NCInnovation to funding university research, yet it still represents picking winners and losers in the marketplace. The group had not made a single…
Cooper Seeks to Stop Opportunity Scholarships, Close Out Educational Options
At the recent State Board of Education meeting, Gov. Roy Cooper called for a moratorium on expanding the Opportunity Scholarship Program. Cooper’s claims about vouchers harming public schools financially and…
How Many Early Voting Days Would Be Best?
Reducing the number of early voting days may be debated in this year’s General Assembly session. Reducing early voting days would likely have little effect on turnout. A possible compromise…
Solving North Carolina’s Crime Problem: Part One
North Carolinians are worried about crime, and with good reason. Crime levels spiked in 2020 and 2021 and remain significantly higher than in previous years. Clearance rates, on the other…
The Cost per Vote of North Carolina’s Statewide Primary Elections
While the voter history file has yet to be updated for this year’s primary election, many political analysts and reporters have been looking to pull what information we can about…
Biden’s EV Dictates Face Two Big Problems: Buyers and Sellers
Gov. Roy Cooper wants 50 percent of new car sales in North Carolina to be electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030, and amid his Covid-fueled mania of releasing executive orders, he had…
Would You Make Your Kids Live in a Socialist Country?
In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls proposed a thought experiment in which the subject chooses a system of political economy from behind a “veil of ignorance.” There are several…
North Carolina Gets Low Marks on Education Entrepreneur Freedom Index
North Carolina scores low marks when it comes to fostering a welcoming regulatory environment for educational innovators and entrepreneurs, according to the Education Entrepreneur Freedom Index. The goal of the…
Three Dead Whales in Three Days
From Corolla, North Carolina, to Virginia Beach, Virginia, three dead whales washed ashore in three days in early March. Investigations and studies from environmentalists, whale conservationists, and concerned citizens argued…
Introducing the 2024 Civitas Partisan Index
With the ballot for the North Carolina General Assembly set, this is a good time to get a lay of the electoral landscape ahead of the general elections. With that…
Critics Claim School Choice Programs Damage the Public Schools Financially. What Do the Numbers Say?
Opponents of North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program claim that it damages the public schools financially. Is that claim true? Let’s take a closer look at the numbers behind this claim…
Rowan County Early Voting Site Left Unlocked
A concerned citizen forwarded an email to me earlier this week reporting that the Rowan County Board of Elections (BOE) office in Salisbury was left unlocked on the morning of…