Month: September 2024
Today we’re publishing the conclusion to our three-part education series. In Part I we untangled the history of North Carolina’s confusing education bureaucracy, in which both the State Board of Education and the Department of Public Instruction have jurisdiction over the school system. Many incentives drive the two to war, not work, with one another. North Carolina’s…
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Thanks for joining us this morning. Continuing our focus on down ballot races, we’re assessing the state treasurer race today. We’ll get right to it. ***North Carolina’s treasurer is among the most powerful keepers of the public purse in the country. That’s because, as Business NC reported this week, North Carolina “is one of the three remaining states that…
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It’s been nearly six months since our last check-in on NCInnovation, and the organization has achieved a lot since then. After we get into those details, we’ll share a concept that earned a lot of attention in national media this week, and that has a few parallels – and important differences – to the model…
Read MoreLast week, we discussed work and purpose as key foundations for each of us. This week, we discuss the freedom to discuss our own thoughts – a freedom that is foundational to our Republic’s viability and vitality. Unfortunately, many now dismiss “threats” to the First Amendment as radical hyperbole, but we ignore this threat to…
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