Opinion
The ABCs of Privatization
There's no legitimate reason for the state to maintain a monopoly on alcohol sales and distribution.
Opinion
CJ Editorial: The ABCs of Privatization
There's no legitimate reason for the state to maintain a monopoly on alcohol sales and distribution.
Opinion
Time to deregulate the ABC system (or In vino, libertas)
An outdated, convoluted system removed from market forces invites public corruption.
News
Beer, Snacks for AG’s Hired Lawyers Challenged
RALEIGH — Beer and snacks were on the agenda at a recent meeting of the North Carolina Council of State — and they had one executive-branch officer fuming. Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry, one of two Republicans on the council, objected to past reimbursements for two private law firms assisting Cooper with his lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Opinion
Scrap ABCs Program to Make Way for Something Better
New test results released shortly after Election Day yield more evidence that North Carolina's public school testing program is broken beyond repair.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
ABCs accountability results for the 2005-06 school year are just in ... sort of. While official data on public school performance in North Carolina was released late yesterday, it included only reading scores. We’ll have to bide our time until October to find out how our students are doing in math.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
The concept of school choice has long elicited knee-jerk opposition from the education establishment, making legal and political skirmishes inevitable. Yet in several areas of the country, a relatively new kind of choice program is quietly and steadily making inroads into our public education bureaucracy.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
On July 14th, the U.S. Department of Education released the latest edition of the "Nation's Report Card," otherwise known as the 2004-2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Everyone, including Secretary Spelling, hailed growth trends for younger students, and rightly so: 9-year-olds posted their best reading and math scores in the report's 30-year history. American teenagers, on the other hand, did not fare so well: reading and math scores for 17-year-olds stayed low.
Opinion
An Alcoholic Blackout
Sen. Howard Lee pushed through the welcome creation of a study commission to look at NC’s incoherent alcohol-control laws. Now he, and the commission, are out of (legislative) business.
Opinion
Incoherence and Alcohol
Political types often make contradictory arguments, but rarely in the same breath. On ABC stores, however, they simultaneously defend the government monopoly because it generates a lot of revenue and because it doesn't.
