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Cooper administration keeps beating the Medicaid Expansion horse
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Gov. Cooper’s latest Phase 2 extension to sideline fans, likely means empty football stadiums to start the season
Education
Minorities and school choice: time to take the next step
Minority support for school choice exceeds white support for many programs High levels of support create opportunities for many Republicans and problems for many Democrats Expanded school choice should be included as an option to remote learning to ensure students don’t fall further behind and to help narrow the achievement gap School choice is a...
Elections
The lie at the heart of the ACLU’s absentee voting lawsuit
The ACLU is suing North Carolina to repeal the witness requirement for absentee ballots. The ACLU claims that the witness requirement does not serve “any valid governmental interest,” but witness signatures were used as evidence in the 9th Congressional District hearing and testimony reveals that the witness requirement makes ballot harvesting more difficult. Despite ACLU...
Education
More school choice is one of the ways North Carolina is better than a decade ago
Education is one of the state’s most important responsibilities. Section IX of the North Carolina State Constitution describes a “general and uniform system of free public schools” which the General Assembly supports via taxation and which local governments may add to or supplement. The North Carolina State Constitution also provides that every child of appropriate...
Economics
Economics
Exposing the radical agenda the Left wants to impose on North Carolina
Economics
Money for Nothing
Economics
Paycheck Protection Program is being used to subsidize leftist activism
Economics
Judge strikes a blow against Cooper’s shutdown orders; bowling alleys allowed to reopen
Economics
A primer on how sausage is made in the NC General Assembly
Elections
Elections
Judge rejects most of Democracy NC’s latest “sue until blue” election lawsuit
Elections
June 23 primary incident exposes another problem with touchscreen voting machines
Elections
Note to the Daily Beast: more mail votes ≠ more votes
Elections
Republicans outpace Democrats in voter registration, but by less than in 2016
Elections
Election analysts: Electoral College protects North Carolina’s voice (Op-ed)
Education
Education
Raleigh paper withholds critical fact about charter schools
Education
The Covid-19 era and America’s identity crisis gives us a chance to rethink education
Education
North Carolina homeschool group offering free webinar
Education
A Decade of NC Teacher Pay: Numbers point towards improvement
Education
NCAE puts legislature in sights and pushes outrage button
Liberty
Liberty
Healthcare solutions for North Carolina
Liberty
Pandemic exposes harms of burdensome CON laws
Liberty
Cooper’s hostility over 2nd Amendment continues to grow
Liberty
Expanding Medicaid puts those most at-need at risk
Liberty
Rising crime in Charlotte highlights political hypocrisy and need for leadership
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