Ask somebody to list industries that employ “leaders” in American society, and you’ll probably hear some combination of the military, high finance, politics, maybe religion. But if we define leaders as those who have an outsized impact on the lives, livelihoods, and beliefs of others, then one occupation ought to appear near the top of…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. The headlines about President Donald Trump’s cuts to university research funding track the polarization of our era. According to the headlines, America is simultaneously spiraling into the dark ages and courageously fixing an outdated, ideological federal research bureaucracy. “Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril,”…
Thanks for joining us this Saturday morning. Brad Briner is six months into his new job as state treasurer. It’s been a busy start to a first term: working to engineer a turnaround of North Carolina’s pension fund underperformance, and convincing lawmakers to transition to a new model for pension fund governance, and handling a…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. In May, Republican State Auditor Dave Boliek assumed appointment authority for the five-member North Carolina State Board of Elections, power that previously rested with the governor. It was the culmination of a long-term effort by the state legislature to do away with single-party control of the state’s…
Thank you for joining us on this one big, beautiful Saturday morning. Today we’re diving into President Donald Trump’s signature domestic policy: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which we’ll abbreviate through the rest of this piece as “BBA.” Everywhere you look, there’s an opinion. The BBA is a cruel redistribution of federal resources that will ultimately…
From the Desk of Chuck Fuller, CEO, The Results Company Thank you for the privilege of sharing this message with you today, America’s 249th birthday. In my younger years, I brimmed with confidence that, if confronted with some urgent national call to action, I would rise to the occasion and charge forward to victory. Of course I…
Good morning, and thank you for joining us. Today, we’d like to take the opportunity to highlight a few exciting projects from our friends at the American Battlefield Trust (ABT). A few months ago, Nexus wrote about several exciting ABT events leading up to the release of the travel documentary — Travels with Darley: North Carolina Revolutionary Road Trip. During…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. The list of notable names to come out of Fordyce, Arkansas (population: 4,300) is what one might expect from a small town in the rural south: war heroes and ball players. But nestled in after Ray Porter (World War II general) and Kevin Williams (defensive tackle for…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. Today we’re checking back in on a project we believe in: NCInnovation. The nonprofit’s mission is to provide grants and R&D support to promising university research with potential for commercial applications once it exits the university. Put another way, NCInnovation backs the kind of university research that has…