Snow geese
The surprise wasn’t Governor McCrory’s Cabinet Secretaries ripping into the liberals over at the Southern Environmental Law Center, calling them ‘do-gooders sitting in ivory towers in air... Read More
NC Spin Articles
NC SPIN's Tom Campbell Interviews Governor Pat McCrory
Welcome to this special edition of NC SPIN. Our old friend Bill Friday had a longstanding tradition of conducting a conversation with the sitting Governor of our State as one year ended and another... Read More
The lasting impression on DHHS
One of the most interesting comments about this week’s announcement that Ricky Diaz was leaving his post as communications director of the scandal-plagued N.C. Department of Health and Human... Read More
How the college bubble will pop
The American political class has long held that higher education is vital to individual and national success. The Obama administration has dubbed college "the ticket to the middle class," and... Read More
NC Commerce department shakeup too much too soon
Editorial by News and Observer, January 10, 2014. Even some legislators who backed the idea of forming a public-private nonprofit to lead North Carolina’s economic development efforts aren’t sure... Read More
Roy Williams, UNC dispute report on athletes' reading skills
UNC Chapel Hill men’s basketball coach Roy Williams and other university officials strongly disputed a report by whistleblower Mary Willingham this week that says more than half of the academically... Read More
Time and Again
In a previous column, I noted that the Left’s crusade against conservative ideas and politicians in North Carolina faces an implacable foe: the time-space continuum. Leftist predictions that... Read More
McCrory cautious on unemployment insurance during Sunday show interview
Gov. Pat McCrory would not commit to putting North Carolina back into the federal program that provides long-term unemployment benefits during an interview on the N.C. Spin television program this... Read More
USDA threatens to pull funding over NC food stamp problems
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has failed to make promised changes to fix problems with its food stamps program, according to federal regulators. The state and federal... Read More
NC unemployment rate hits a five year low
In November, employers in North Carolina eliminated 6,500 more payroll positions than they added (-0.2 percent), due primarily to a net loss of 5,000 private-sector jobs. The monthly household survey... Read More
