During the myFutureNC conference last week, a video was shown that illustrated the leaky education-to-workforce pipeline. Anthony Jackson, superintendent of Chatham County schools, appeared in the video with 100 of his students, meant to represent 100 North Carolina 9th graders. As he recited some numbers, students started walking out of the video. He started with 100. […]
Networks have been paying top dollar for sports programming. Salaries and expenses at all levels of sports have gone up accordingly. And yet, the source of all this money was the humble cable customer. Millennials increasingly are making the music stop. The whole business model of cable sports was predicated on captive cable customers. The
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The question facing Gov. Ron DeSantis is how much to mix it up with Donald Trump. Trump is coming after DeSantis with hammer and tongs, as is his usual style. DeSantis hasn’t formally announced for the GOP nomination, but it looks like he is running. Sooner or later he is going to have to fight
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Only eight years ago, the Chinese helped us rescue Matt Damon from Mars. Now we are in the Balloon War phase of the eventual, maybe, 2025 Indo-Pacific Conflict. Buy your next iPhone now, it says here. It may have been Lord Palmerston or Henry Kissisnger or Don Ameche who said nations have no permanent friends