Look at school choice
Adecision by a Superior Court judge last week to block a new school voucher law was met with howls of disapproval from school choice advocates. One of the sponsors of the law, Wake County Republican... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Keep 'em here, send 'em home
Immigration, the newspaper says, is ‘bedeviling” Congresswoman Renee Ellmers. It’s also bedeviling Speaker John Boehner. And half the Republicans in Washington. It’s a knotty problem... Read More
The clear and compelling case to raise the minimum wage
The U.S. Senate is likely to vote next month on legislation that would help 28 million workers across the country and 21 million children. The bill would benefit more than a million workers in North... Read More
If we're going to outsource, let's get it right first
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, February 25, 2014. State Rep. Susi Hamilton supports the concept of enlisting private enterprise to help recruit businesses to North Carolina, but she objects to... Read More
Florida model could avoid voucher pitfalls
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, February 25, 2014. A judge has blocked private school tuition grants, which appear to violate the N.C. Constitution's provision that state funding go exclusively to... Read More
CWIP: Corporate welfare in progress
by Jon Sanders, The Locker Room, John Locke Foundation, February 26, 2014. Well, that isn’t exactly what CWIP stands for (it’s “Construction Work in Progress”), but in a sense it’s what CWIP... Read More
NC Doesn't pay more for less
When politicians admit they don’t know something, that makes me respect them more. Admitted ignorance is a sign of maturity, of a willingness to learn. It can be remedied with facts. What really... Read More
High Point Poll: Voters not happy with politicians
A new HPU Poll finds that 42 percent of North Carolina residents approve of President Barack Obama’s job performance. The poll, the second HPU Poll of 2014, places Gov. Pat McCrory’s job... Read More
No Carolina comeback - Just a Carolina setback for jobless workers
In recent months, Governor McCrory and his supporters have pointed to a number of controversial steps lawmakers took in 2013, like cutting unemployment insurance, as being the catalyst for a... Read More
A cautionary tale on school vouchers
Twenty-five years ago, education secretary Bill Bennett advanced the idea that government student aid was largely to blame for the steady increases in college tuition. Since then, higher education... Read More
