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• District to send $16.25 million in taxpayer money to for-profit company

  According to the News & Observer,  The Wake County school system is planning to pay $16.25 million to purchase 17,000 Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga laptop computers for school district staff to use. Critics of charter schools claim that it is problematic for schools to contract with a for-profit charter management…

  Terry Stoops, October 15, 2019, 74 words

• Charlotte council extends controversial land swap deal with Mecklenburg County

  Charlotte Observer reports the City Council extended the deadline for Mecklenburg County to sell property it had obtained in a 2007 land swap with the city that opened space for BB&T Ballpark. The land swap deal deal dictated the city would regain control of the land–the site of Marshall…

  Sam Hieb, October 15, 2019, 165 words

• What the Left really thinks about school choice families

  Consider this passage from Rob Schofield of N.C. Policy Watch: Think about it: School can be hard. You’re a parent with less-than-perfect recollections of your own school experience. The news is full of stories about school funding problems. The public school to which your child is assigned is a…

  Terry Stoops, October 15, 2019, 324 words

• Regulation and choice

  Sometimes public policy is designed for the benefit of a few at the expense of all others. A recent California bill is a perfect example of just that:  Shares of SmileDirectClub SDC -12.85% Inc. fell…

  Jordan Roberts, October 15, 2019, 344 words

• Appeals Court rules against Mecklenburg sheriff in concealed handgun permit dispute

  The N.C. Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court and ordered it to reconsider the Mecklenburg County sheriff’s office’s rejection of a concealed handgun permit for a Vietnam veteran. The appellate judges agreed that the sheriff’s office had not given Howard Duvall adequate notice of the reason for…

  Mitch Kokai, October 15, 2019, 173 words

• Appeals Court strikes down sweepstakes kiosks

  A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court and ruled against operators of sweepstakes kiosks. The complicated case generated separate opinions from all three judges. They agreed that the challenged kiosks violate North Carolina’s ban on video sweepstakes machines. But the judges disagreed…

  Mitch Kokai, October 15, 2019, 94 words

• Critiquing American companies that do China’s bidding

  John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist considers American companies that kowtow to the Chinese communist government. Twitter and Facebook are the exceptions to a disturbing trend of U.S.-based companies bowing and scraping before the Chinese Communist Party. Witness the recent spectacle of the NBA censoring fans on American…

  Mitch Kokai, October 15, 2019, 265 words

• Learning lessons from nations that rejected socialism

  Lee Edwards writes for National Review Online about nations that tried socialism and found it wanting. Socialists are fond of saying that socialism has never failed because it has never been tried. But in truth, socialism has failed in every country in which it has been tried, from…

  Mitch Kokai, October 15, 2019, 268 words