NC SPIN episode #1135 Air Date 08/14/2020
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Balanced Debate For The Old North State.
Be sure to watch this week's NC SPIN. Our panel will the latest on North Carolina's election, the decline in COVID-19 and the start of school next week. Our panel this week includes Anna Beavon Gravely, Executive Director of NC FREE; Chris Fitzsimon, Director of States Newsroom; Rob Schoolfield, Director fo NC Policy Watch; and John Hood, syndicated columnist and author. Be sure to watch NC SPIN Friday night at 7:30p.m. and again Sunday at 12:30 p.m. You can also watch on the North Carolina Channel Friday night at 10:00 p.m., Saturday at 4:30 p.m., and Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Plus you can stream the show after 5 p.m. Friday from our website www.ncspin.com. Thank you for watching NC SPIN.
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Pols can’t be daydream believers
North Carolina leaders are not sleepwalking through a fiscal crisis. They are counting on congress to bail them out with federal borrowing. Read More
Harris is good news for NC Democrats
In North Carolina, Democrats up and down that ballot will benefit from an increased Black turnout and women who may be on the fence could lean into the prospect of a Harris vice-presidency. Read More
NC's Requests for Absentee by Mail Ballots Continues Its Exponential Growth
More than 200,000 requests have been made for absentee ballots, nearly 8 times as many as this same point in 2016. Read More
The State Budget: Where the money goes, and how to cut spending
North Carolina is better prepared to weather the fiscal storm. State government has built up a significant rainy-day fund and savings to weather the bridge the gap. Read More
Pandemic imperils public schools
The same politicians who push hardest for private schools are pushing hardest for public schools to reopen. We need to put our money where are children are. Read More
Did one-third of the economy disappear?
Economic headlines and details may not paint the same picture. In a year we can decide just how bad the economy was. Read More
Trump's latest last-ditch con
As Donald Trump confronts the final three months of his presidency his weekend efforts to establish a pandemic relief package are soon to be forgotten. Read More
Carolinian led women into medicine
Discrimination is foolishly self-destructive. It keeps companies from hiring the best people and serving the most customers. It throttles innovation. It makes our families and communities poorer. Read More
Civitas poll shows Trump, Cooper and Tillis with leads
The "Rally Round the Flag" effect we saw at the start of the pandemic appears to be waning. Read More
Homocides spiking in North Carolina cities
Homocides are up because criminals are emboldened by the sidelining of police, courts, schools, churches and an array of other social institutions. Read More
Cooper administration keeps beating the Medicaid expansion horse
Every state that has implemented Medicaid expansion has seen costs shoot dramatically above projections. But expansion has been a top priority for Governor Cooper from the first day he took office. Read More
Blaine says Republican dominance may be coming to an end
Business North Carolina reports that Republican strategist and operative Jim Blaine portends great reversals for Republicans in the 2020 elections. Read More
Poll shows bubbling economic populism and helps explain Tillis' woes
The poll shows the majority of people believe Senator Tillis is out of step with the people. Read More
Elon polls shows Gaston parents don't want children to go to
Gavin Stewart, writing in the Gaston Gazette says a poll commissioned by the Gaston County Chapter of NCAE shows a majority of parents favor a part-time or blended learning model. Read More
A prime example of how sausage and laws are made in the General Assembly
As with making good sausage the legislative process isn't very pretty. Hopefully it is liked by many. Read More
As NC schools reopen, we are rolling the dice with our people's lives
We're told young children and young adults are less susceptible to the virus so we are taking the plunge on opening our schools. How will it turn out? Read More
The impending creep of unionization in North Carolina
Despite strong right-to-work laws and a long pro-worker tradition, North Carolina is targeted for union organization in the private and public sectors. So far, North Carolina has rejected those efforts. Read More
We're governed by geezers
Those who fought the war and forged the peace were "The Greatest Generation." Baby boomers are the luckiest generation. It's time to pay it forward. Read More
County races turn on governance
County-level elections give us insights about North Carolina's recent political past as well as our political future. Read More
Isn't it about time to flex the Independent muscle?
What's it going to take to change our political gridlock, polarization and demagogues? Read More
Cardinal Point Analytics poll shows Trump, Tillis, Forest ahead
In its second statewide poll of likely North Carolina voters the results are surprising. Read More
Is it really 2030?
The future is on us sooner than we thought. What we are looking at is closer to what we thought it would be in 2030. Read More
New monuments could unify the state
Whether you believe statues and monuments honoring Confederate leaders or not, you can be sure a significant share of North Carolinians agree with you. Read More
Majority of NC voters say census is worth the money
Has the coronavirus made it more or less likely people would respond to the census? Read More
Unprecedented crisis demands strong medicine from the federal government
The federal government dillydallied, then botched its response to the coronavirus crisis. Read More
