This recent Daily Caller article examines some trends of the death tax, both at the federal and state level – and includes a focus on North Carolina. In the Democrat-controlled Senate, Republican John Thune has introduced the Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act to abolish the federal estate tax. That bill follows on the heels of [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Planned Borrowing by Local Governments Grows to Over $1 Billion in One Year
A legislative panel has learned of a new round of borrowing planned by local governments that amounts to over $476 million. Only $33.6 million of that would require approval from voters. A previous article reported another list of borrowing submitted to the Joint Legislative Committee on Local Government that totaled nearly $750 million, again with most [...]
Vote Tracker Update – April 9, 2012
According to the State Board of Elections data, 1,433 voters have returned their absentee ballots to their county board of elections office. So far the breakout of ballots returned by party looks like this: Democrat 596 Republican 508 Unaffiliated 324 Libertarian 5 But, Unaffiliated voters are eligible to vote either a Democratic, Republican or non-partisan [...]
New Video from PEFNC
Our friends at Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina have produced a great video about an important topic: parental choice in education. While we talk incessantly about diversity in the schools, we still cling to a one size-fits-all educational model. All parents want to be able to provide the best for their children. However [...]
Dropout problems not confined to K-12
Most significantly, community college three year-year graduation rates average in the low 20 percent range, with many colleges graduating far fewer than this average. In 2009, the last year for which the federal government has reported data, close to 400 community colleges had graduation rates of less than 15 percent. For the minority of students [...]
