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Evaluating the western N.C. ‘Marshall Plan’

The new recovery plan has worthwhile ideas, but its success will depend on what happens town by town.
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There has to be a better way to do disaster recovery
The technology already exists to cut down on paperwork and handoffs. N.C. should have it ready before the next storm.
 • Andrew Dunn
Democratic state House candidate says she used Flock data to catch cheating spouses. How?
There are tight restrictions on police camera records. Evonne Hopkins’s statement raises the question: How did that information reach a divorce lawyer?
 • Andrew Dunn
While the school board fights, families make other plans
I love school choice. But families should be drawn to a great school, not driven away by a dysfunctional district.
 • Andrew Dunn
State government is letting Raleigh’s history fall apart
Historic homes near the governor’s mansion deserve better than the administration’s neglect.
 • Andrew Dunn
The bizarre things N.C. expects kindergartners to learn
North Carolina’s 52-page kindergarten guide shows how quickly simple learning goals can get buried in bureaucratic jargon.
 • Andrew Dunn
Woodson Bradley’s shameless rewriting of history
A new campaign mailer casts the state senator as a victim of a pyramid scheme. The federal record tells a very different story.
 • Andrew Dunn
I’m on a school improvement team. Now what?
This year, I want to figure out how to get something done—and help other parents do the same.
 • Andrew Dunn
Will N.C. ever put ‘right to work’ in the constitution?
North Carolina has protected right to work since 1947. Twice, Republican lawmakers have come close to letting voters make it permanent.
 • Andrew Dunn
North Carolina’s latest election conspiracy, explained
The State Board’s timing was terrible. But the ballot-sealing requirement at the center of the controversy dates to 1939.
 • Andrew Dunn
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