NC Spin Articles

McCrory Calls Out Legislators Using Facebook

Gov. Pat McCrory is using Facebook to call on lawmakers to sustain two vetoes he issued earlier this month. "Contact your representative, Julia Howard @ 919-733-5904 who represents Davie and Forsyth...    Read More

August 21, 2013





When N.C. justices were impeached

Howard E. Covington Jr. dangles an intriguing historical footnote in his excellent new biography of Greensboro’s Henry Frye. (I’ll write about the book for a future Sunday Ideas section.) The...    Read More

August 21, 2013

Fund, don't just praise community colleges

I was fortunate enough to be a community college president for 15 years under three governors. I can’t say how many times I heard how valuable we were to the economic well-being of our state. The...    Read More

August 21, 2013



Mike Walden responds to NC SPIN

On last week's NC SPIN we reported that NC State Economist Mike Walden predicted that North Carolina's unemployment rate would drop from its current 8.8 percent (now 8.9) to 6.8 percent by 2015. Host...    Read More

August 21, 2013

Happy Birthday Virginia Dare

North Carolina’s most famous missing person just will not go away. One main reason is the work of Chatham County’s Marjorie Hudson, an award-winning writer and teacher of writing. Ten years after...    Read More

by D. G. Martin   |   August 21, 2013


Progressives and Blacks

Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN’s Piers Morgan’s interview with the key witness in the George...    Read More

August 21, 2013