By Carolina Journal Staff Raleigh, NC – Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday, April 9, signed two bills into law designed to help students who lost more than a year of in-person learning because of the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. House…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – Private bars will open at limited capacity under a new executive decree from the governor, although at the same time he called for more direct government aid to prop up failing businesses. As opposed…
By Kevin Roche Coronamonomania is alive and well. After over a year of dealing with this serious epidemic, you might imagine that we had learned how to minimize the overall toll from the epidemic itself and our response to it.…
By Andrew Dunn Raleigh, NC – Gov. Roy Cooper is again pushing for a multibillion-dollar infrastructure bond, but Republican leaders caution that North Carolina’s still-unsteady economy makes it impossible to tell whether it would be prudent. In remarks to the…
By Kevin Roche The first paper deals with schools and their role in transmission and was published in the journal Pediatrics. (Ped. Article) The study looked at 11 school districts in North Carolina which had been open for 9 weeks of…
By Kevin Roche Lest you think the media isn’t determined to create as much hysteria as it can and turn a blind eye to developments in one state while praising another, even though the outcomes are the same, look at…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – Gov. Roy Cooper — and scores of politicians like them — have since March imposed noxious closures and lockdowns with the altruistic goal of keeping us safe. In reality, these government-imposed suppressions have done…
By Jon Guze Raleigh, NC – Notwithstanding Gov. Roy Cooper’s claim to be “following the science,” my colleagues at the John Locke Foundation have repeatedly shown that there’s precious little in the way of scientific support for the various lockdown…
By Dr. Terry Stoops Raleigh, NC – This weekend, the Chicago Teachers Union tweeted that efforts to reopen schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic are “rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny.” The union later deleted the tweet after receiving a flood…
By Julie Havlak Raleigh, NC – More students face repeating a grade than anytime in the past century, says David Stegall, deputy superintendent of innovation at the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. Remote learning is failing North Carolina’s students. Roughly…