The political season has reached a fever pitch in Raleigh with the primary election now less than a week away. Pollsters and pundits are making their predictions, candidates are crisscrossing the state, and campaign managers and political consultants are talking about everything from baseball caps bearing the confederate flag to suspending the state and federal gas taxes. [Continue Reading...]
North Carolina is one of 21 states with a law that permits corporal punishment in the public schools. Yet, it may be the only state that does not monitor the administration of corporal punishment. Last month, Action for Children and students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Social [Continue Reading...]
Recently, the North Carolina Supreme Court declined to hear a case that challenged the constitutionality of the state tax incentives and subsidies provided to Dell Computers, Inc. in 2004. The plaintiffs in the case claimed that the package of goodies given to Dell when it decided to locate an assembly plant in Winston-Salem did not serve a legitimate “public purpose.†[Continue Reading...]
