RALEIGH — How should we respond to the urban-rural divide? The question has legions of politicians, scholars, journalists, and businesses scrambling for answers.
It’s not about urban vs. rural
John Hood is chairman of the John Locke Foundation and appears on the talk show “NC SPIN.” You can follow him @JohnHoodNC.
“The real mystery after half a century,” Wyndham Robertson says, “is why life at the top of large American corporations still seems so overwhe…
RALEIGH — In the January 1953 edition of the magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction, a fan of the genre from Texas, Marilyn Venable, made her …
While many are fretting over the just-right Christmas present, tackling last-minute holiday details or preparing for years-end, many of North …
As a nation, we came together last week to say farewell to a beloved patriot and hero, President George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the U…
RALEIGH — There has always been a robust political debate between advocates of free trade and advocates of manipulating the terms of trade to …
RALEIGH — As dysfunctional as Congress has become, it does manage to enact some useful bills. One of them, the Evidence-Based Policymaking Act…
RALEIGH — The average public-school district in the United States enrolls about 3,700 students, according to a recent Governing magazine analy…
RALEIGH — Milton Friedman once observed that “nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” To be sure, spending bills or regula…
RALEIGH — The single most important issue during every legislative session is the approval or revision of North Carolina’s state budget. For t…
RALEIGH — If you own it, you control it. That’s what it means to enjoy a property right, in a nutshell. It is a right safeguarded by North Car…
RALEIGH — Whether your frame of reference is a country, a government, a business, or your own household, being better off in the long run requ…
RALEIGH — When it comes to giving parents more control over where their children attend elementary and secondary school, North Carolina has be…
RALEIGH — Democrats achieved significant victories this year in the “inner suburbs” of Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, and North Carolina’s ot…
Besides circulation the most complaints I get is about the editorial page. So today’s Friday Five is about questions and complaints about poli…
RALEIGH — Do political movements ever really accomplish anything? The English writer G.K. Chesterton had his doubts. “The whole modern world h…
RALEIGH — When natural disasters or other emergencies hit our state, North Carolinians respond in droves — and I’m not just referring to the c…
RALEIGH — North Carolina politics can be exhausting. The past few weeks have brought us wrangling over redistricting and constitutional amendm…
RALEIGH — Wealthy North Carolinians pay a higher share of their incomes in taxes than do middle-income North Carolinians, who in turn have a h…
RALEIGH — My wife is angry at the government. No surprise there, I suppose — we do have a great deal in common.
RALEIGH — As elementary and secondary schools open their doors across North Carolina for the 2018-19 academic year, the cumulative effects of …
RALEIGH — According to a recent Gallup poll, 57 percent of Democratic voters view socialism positively, more than the 47 percent who view capi…
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s two most-populous counties, Mecklenburg and Wake, are home to about 21 percent of the state’s population and 28 per…
RALEIGH — If I told you that North Carolina had one of America’s top-ranked systems of public education, there are at least three ways you cou…
RALEIGH — After decades of debate and litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court has settled a contentious matter: governments will now be authorized…
RALEIGH — Whether North Carolina pays its public schoolteachers at a level close or equal to the national average is one of the most-debated i…
John Hood of the John Locke Foundation recently wrote an opinion piece for the Tribune; its headline was “Freedom is growth strategy.” He then…
RALEIGH — When pollsters ask voters to list the issues they care about most, economic concerns usually rank high on the list — even when unemp…
RALEIGH — When explaining modern American conservatism to students, both young and not-so-young, I mix my methods. There are tables and charts…
RALEIGH — There is a familiar kind of political argument that goes something like this: “I know we are politically divided. I think that parti…
RALEIGH — Over the past two weeks, government budget agencies have delivered two key reports to North Carolina taxpayers. One should infuriate…
RALEIGH — Proving that great minds think alike, both Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and the Bard himself, William Shakespeare, …
RALEIGH — If you are a political junkie, you follow closely the daily ins and outs of elections and legislation. I do, too. Let’s step back fo…
RALEIGH — The state legislature regularly draws fire for its decision to end an old, very generous tax break for film and TV production and re…
RALEIGH — Tariffs are taxes. They have always been. So when President Donald Trump announced plans to impose costly tariffs on imports of stee…
RALEIGH — When the North Carolina Senate recently passed a bill with several moving parts — a newly reconstituted State Board of Elections, a …
