NC Spin Articles

Feds proposed shift in poultry rules troubling

Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 20, 2014. Warning horns should blast full force around the Obama administration approving a change in federal law to replace most federal inspectors on poultry...    Read More

January 22, 2014

Tillis' 1984

Thom Tillis is walking the same tightrope that Jim Hunt walked in his U.S. Senate race 30 years ago. But Tillis’ balance is even more precarious.   Tillis today, like Hunt then, has to appeal to...    Read More

January 21, 2014

McCrory and Medicaid

Despite all the bumbling and fumbling in his state health agency, Gov. Pat McCrory and his embattled agency secretary, Aldona Wos, may finally be poised for a small policy and political victory. Or...    Read More

January 21, 2014




Why should I stay in North Carolina to teach?

Governor McCrory, I need your help. I am a teacher educator at UNC-Greensboro, and this semester I have 24 student teachers who are preparing to teach social studies to middle and high schoolers. One...    Read More

January 20, 2014


King's words changed a nation

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, January 19, 2014. Many have expressed eloquent comments about the life, death and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But his own voice echoes most strongly...    Read More

January 20, 2014


Remember King, tackle economic woes

Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 19, 2014. Toward the end of his life, Martin Luther King had turned his attention and his powerful voice toward a subject that has a firm grip on the United...    Read More

January 20, 2014


NC got broad tax cut

Did Gov. Pat McCrory and the North Carolina legislature raise taxes on poor and middle-income families to give tax breaks to the wealthy? That’s the claim that a motley crew of liberal politicians...    Read More

by John Hood   |   January 20, 2014