By Donna King Raleigh, NC – orth Carolinians are not immune to what has become near hysteria over the growth of data centers and their role in the modern economy. Just one year ago, a Heatmap Pro/Embold Research poll found…
By Max Ganorkar Raleigh, NC – rowing up in socialist India, I witnessed firsthand what happens when government gradually replaces the free market. If North Carolinians don’t wake up to the spread of socialism in our state, they will experience…
By David Larson Raleigh, NC – The controversy over AI data centers is following a very similar pattern as the panic over nuclear power. Some decided that nuclear power must not be allowed anywhere near them, and no amount of…
By Andrew Pomeranz Raleigh, NC – Duke Energy has joined the Trump administration’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge, promising to support measures intended to prevent households and small businesses from paying for the power plants and grid infrastructure needed to serve rapidly…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Raleigh, NC – Justin Gainey has spent his first summer as NC State’s head men’s basketball coach asking players to accept an apparent contradiction: He wants them pushed relentlessly, held accountable publicly and privately, challenged…
By Donald Bryson Raleigh, NC – On May 1, the North Carolina Association of Educators held another large rally in downtown Raleigh. The date was not accidental. May 1 is International Workers’ Day, and NCAE used the occasion to protest,…
By David Larson Raleigh, NC – Last week, I was a little critical of some more-vocal members of GenZ, mostly because I’m tired of seeing so many of them blame their grandparents, the “Boomers,” for financial difficulties. But one area…
By Everett Pitts Raleigh, NC – Four years after North Carolina leaders celebrated VinFast’s promise to build the state’s first automobile assembly plant in Chatham County, the state is now suing the Vietnamese electric-vehicle maker, alleging it failed to meet…
By Jeanette Doran Raleigh, NC – In January, I wrote in these pages that coordinated teacher “callouts” are not protected protest — they are illegal work stoppages under North Carolina law. Robert Luebke of the John Locke Foundation’s Center for…
By David M. Klein Raleigh, NC – North Carolina regulators have been too lax, for too long, in protecting our water from industrial pollution. We have a crisis, and emerging contaminants like PFAS — “forever chemicals” — and 1,4-dioxane are…