Visionary/reactionary
Josephus Daniels was a North Carolina newspaper mogul, Democratic party kingmaker, Prohibitionist, progressive leader, ardent Methodist, equally ardent segregationist, friend to William Jennings Bryan... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Spill changes everything
An environmental calamity as massive as Duke Energy’s coal ash spill into the Dan River inevitably leads to finger-pointing. Someone has to pay. In media coverage and public response, Duke Energy... Read More
NC Workers make above-average gains
It’s certainly reasonable for people to use the unemployment rate and the number of jobs created to evaluate the performance of an economy. Robust growth typically means greater opportunities for... Read More
All ash ponds leaking
Here is something you might have missed in all the coverage of the massive coal ash spill into the Dan River at a shuttered Duke Energy plant on Feb. 2. There are a total of 31 coal ash ponds at... Read More
N.C. Politics split
I am hurt,” says the dying Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet after trying to stand up for his friend Romeo and getting stabbed for it. “A plague o’ both your houses!” In popular remembrance, we... Read More
The top 10 most affordable hospitals
With Senator Kay Hagan’s controversial support of the Affordable Care Act and the subsequent release of anti-Obamacare ads in North Carolina, many Tar Heel residents are keeping their eyes on... Read More
Judge halts opportunity scholarship program
When you can't win at the ballot box, enforce your will through the courts. That'a well-known tactic of the left and that's exactly the strategy on display in North Carolina. Earlier today Wake... Read More
Gian cable merger threatens consumers
Like all horror stories, this one began innocently. My daughter was moving to a new job out of state and on moving day she handed me a small box with a cable attached to it and asked, “Can you... Read More
The state's first civil rights demonstration was 65 years ago
We have grown accustomed to seeing thousands of people descend on the state Capitol to protest the policies of the legislature. But it wasn’t always so. And when the Capitol was picketed for the... Read More
Injunction on NC vouchers is a good move
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, February 23, 2014. Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood on Friday stopped the N.C. legislature from moving forward with a voucher program that diverts public funds to... Read More
