NC Spin Articles

GOP alleges irregularities with Progress NC

The state Republican Party Tuesday asked the Secretary of State Elaine Marshall to investigate a Democratic group's fund-raising practices. The state GOP is questioning whether Progress NC, a...    Read More

September 25, 2013

Time for a Bi -State Commission

I recently attended a meeting with the leadership of the Port of Virginia as a member of the Northeast Commission. The Northeast Commission is a state funded organization tasked to do economic...    Read More

September 25, 2013

Just anybody

by Thomas Mills, Politics NC, September 24, 2013. Well, one thing about the Department of Health and Human Services is certain: If it wasn’t really broken before Aldona Wos showed up on the scene...    Read More

September 25, 2013


Medicaid glitches must be resolved – now

Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, September 24, 2013. For much of the summer, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services has been in a political crosshairs, with attention focused on high...    Read More

September 25, 2013

Teenage alcohol abuse data reveal scary story

Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, September 20, 2013. The numbers relating to binge-drinking high school students are horrifying. Throw in the fact that the numbers might not even be the whole...    Read More

September 25, 2013



McCrory slow to anger over DHHS mess

Editorial by News and Observer, September 25, 2013. Pat McCrory said he was going to run North Carolina’s state government like a business, but it’s proving to be a funny business. Consider the...    Read More

September 25, 2013

The Case for Bending the Curve

Although it may not seem obvious at first, there is a common denominator between two separate dramas playing out in Washington and Raleigh right now. Nationally, the top story in domestic policy is...    Read More

by John Hood   |   September 25, 2013

State Medicaid Director leaving post

by Sarah Ovaska, NC Policy Watch, September 24, 2013. The state’s Medicaid director is out, after only eight months on the job. Carol Steckel submitted her resignation later Monday, saying she would...    Read More

September 24, 2013


Stuck with Wos

Governor McCrory has to hope that Aldona Wos and the high-paid operatives around her pull off a miracle at DHHS. Because he clearly can’t fire her.   Wos is the most powerful person in Raleigh...    Read More

September 24, 2013