By Dr. Terry Stoops Raleigh, NC – There’s always been overwhelming support for programs offering school choice opportunities for disadvantaged and special-needs children assigned to underperforming or unsafe public schools. Modest investments in school choice programs can improve the short-term…
Pittsboro, NC – This year has handed us a global pandemic, a national reckoning with centuries of institutional racism, a brutal election season, and endless unknowns. People are suffering from months of isolation, sickness, and economic hardship. Not much about…
By Julie Havlak Raleigh, NC – Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is one of 16 governors who holds only virtual press briefings without reporters in the room. He has scheduled one for 3 p.m. Tuesday, December 8, when he’s expected…
By Katie Henry Pittsboro, NC – Thank you Mr. Moore for posting the letter from your daughter about remote learning not working for many children. Her experience with her own children with the learning struggles, frustration and even the headaches…
by John Hood Raleigh, NC – For inveterate optimists, the past several months have been excruciating. A global pandemic has produced great suffering and death. A protest movement that began with righteous anger about the death of George Floyd has…
by Mariah Wheeler Pittsboro, NC – You may already know this, but I am retiring at the end of August. I know that some will believe that we are closing because of a hard year — the protests which are…
By Kevin Roche There are only two ways that this epidemic ends. One is by population immunity that makes transmission rare, and one is eradication of the virus. The latter is simply not going to happen. The former can be…
by Jon Guze Raleigh, NC – In North Carolina and across the country, Americans have coalesced into two angry factions based on how they feel about statewide lockdown orders like the one that Gov. Roy Cooper imposed on North Carolinians…