NC Spin Articles

DHHS debacles need fixing, not praise

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, December 14, 2013. We appreciate Gov. Pat McCrory's loyalty to his top administrators. It's likely that Aldona Wos, the state secretary of health and human services...    Read More

December 15, 2013

Small colleges in peril

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 15, 2013. Greensboro College had a lot to celebrate last week. After five years of financial struggle — and two years on probation with its accrediting...    Read More

December 15, 2013

Raise minimum wage? It's iffy

It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another – it’s one damn thing over and over.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay Liberals’ love of recycling extends to their ideas, one of which...    Read More

December 15, 2013


The silly season in NC politics

This is the silly season in politics and government. The legislature is not coming back until May, the campaign season is not yet in full bloom, and Gov. Pat McCrory is going across the state trying...    Read More

December 15, 2013

Phones in flight: unfriendly skies

Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, December 10, 2013. Commercial airlines have been the last refuge from the ubiquity of cellphone chatter and text messages that just can’t wait. Call us Luddites...    Read More

December 14, 2013

Public Education?

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 14, 2013. The strongest arguments against the state’s new school voucher program aren’t legal ones. The lawsuit filed this week by the president of...    Read More

December 14, 2013


North Carolina's choice

It would be tough to find another state where the political terrain has shifted as dramatically as it has here — from kindling hopes of a Democratic revival in the South just a few years ago, to...    Read More

December 14, 2013

Ashes and switches

Every child knows just before Christmas is the time to be ‘as good as you can be’ – so you might think after the mischief it’s been up to this year Congress would be rolling up its sleeves and...    Read More

December 14, 2013

Single-sex classrooms: tried and true concept

Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 11, 2013. Separating students by sex is gaining in popularity at one of Winston-Salem’s middle schools. Other schools should revive this tried-and-true...    Read More

December 14, 2013


What North Carolinians think

After bottoming out in September, Pat McCrory's approval numbers continue to tick back up. 42% of voters approve of the job he's doing to 47% who disapprove, a big improvement from 35/53 three months...    Read More

December 13, 2013