NC Spin Articles

Plans for new DHHS building cause controversy

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is once again under the microscope. The ABC11 I-Team has learned that taxpayers almost ponied up $1 million more than they needed to for a...    Read More

September 10, 2013

Students hungry...for food

Editorial by Charlotte Observer, September 8, 2013. A new national study confirms what Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools already knew – too many children are coming to school hungry and that’s taking...    Read More

September 10, 2013

UNC trying to slow grade inflation

Contextual grading may place spotlight on easy courses or lenient profs In 2008, a committee of faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill discovered that the average grade of a Carolina student was...    Read More

September 10, 2013



Bad apples

There are about thirty-seven ways to get an appointment/job in a Governor's administration. The first is for the Governor to know you personally. He knows your character and capabilities. All other...    Read More

by Joe Mavretic   |   September 10, 2013

Not time to pull out the crystal ball

If you are absolutely sure what is going to happen in next year’s midterm elections, my advice is to keep it confidential, tell just a few key folks, let them be awestruck by your prescience on...    Read More

by John Hood   |   September 10, 2013


In Defense of the Income Tax

If you read much about the history of taxation in the United States, you begin to realize that a driving force behind tax policy has been the idea of creating fairness between different classes of...    Read More

September 10, 2013

Keeping up with McCrory

is getting hard to keep up with all the contradictions, falsehoods and confusing statements coming from Gov. Pat McCrory and his office. Wednesday morning McCrory appeared at the State Board of...    Read More

by Chris Fitzsimon   |   September 10, 2013

The big mess at DHHS

Editorial by Ned Barnett, News and Observer, September 9, 2013. As Gov. Pat McCrory’s newly appointed secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, Aldona Wos gave a speech to...    Read More

September 10, 2013