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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Growing states have enviable problems

RALEIGH — North Carolina is no longer the best state in which to do business. Don’t worry — ... Read more

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Shooting should shock the conscience

RALEIGH — Enough. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a despicable and indefensible act that came within a ... Read more

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: On schools and sports, follow evidence

RALEIGH — Having spent most of my career commissioning, editing or writing about public policy research, I understand ... Read more

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: We need more hospital competition

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s hospital sector has undergone lots of mergers and acquisitions over the past decade. Now ... Read more

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Citizens should clarify voting rights

RALEIGH — North Carolina voters will be asked this fall to remove a troubling ambiguity in the state ... Read more

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Carolina dispute helped provoke Revolution

RALEIGH — Did you know that a legal dispute between North Carolina’s elected legislature and the British government ... Read more

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Freedom has multiple definitions

RALEIGH — What does it mean to be free? Many seemingly intractable disputes about specific issues — ranging ... Read more

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Our economy is always churning

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s private sector lost an eye-popping 414,000 jobs in the most-recent quarter tracked by the ... Read more

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Science of reading bears fruit

RALEIGH — Over the past two years, North Carolina had made critical investments in the future of our ... Read more

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN — Let’s talk taxes — the right way

RALEIGH — State and local governments annually collect tens of billions of dollars in taxes from North Carolinians. ... Read more