Editorial Roundup: North Carolina
Recent editorials from North Carolina newspapers:
The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer on the Derek Chauvin trial:
After all the vivid and searing images connected to the killing of George Floyd, Tuesday brought us another: The eyes of Derek Chauvin, wide and darting above his Covid mask, as the hard verdicts reached by a group of Black, white and multiracial jurors rained down upon him.
Guilty, guilty, guilty.
For many, the cause of Chauvin’s distress was their cause for relief. This former police officer, unlike so many others before him, would not avoid justice for his vicious abuse of power. In American cities and towns and in places around the world, many felt a sense of grateful wonder after a year of bitter anger. Equality under the law was honored. The system worked. Justice prevailed.
Editorial Roundup: North Carolina
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Rammed into existence by a Democrat-controlled legislature 15 years ago, the N.C. Education Lottery has raised $8 billion for the stateâs public schools since its inception.
Statewide revenues are up to about $3 billion a year, which translates to an average of $2 million per day spent on education.
Those are gaudy numbers, to be sure.
But has the lottery fully lived up its early promises of âchampagne wishes and caviar dreamsâ (for a good cause, of course)? In a word, no.
Research by UNC-Charlotte professors suggests that the lottery has struck it big in terms of overall revenues. But the share of that revenue that goes to schools has not kept pace. Nor has the original legislation that clearly dictated where the money was supposed to go.
How North Carolina, National News Collide: The Week In Review From WFAE
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