Cut Your Electric Bill: Repeal the Mandate!
In 2007, with Bev Perdue as president of the Senate, Joe Hackney as speaker of the House, and Mike Easley as governor, a very liberal, Democratic-run state government imposed a mandate that by... Read More
NC Spin Articles
North Carolina citizens are dying of prescription drug overdoses. Lots of citizens.
By: Donald Metzger, PA-C President, North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants We have a problem: North Carolina citizens are dying of prescription drug overdoses. Lots of citizens. As of 2008, NC... Read More
Parents Should Make the Choice
In education policy, America sticks out like a sore thumb when compared with our international competitors. Make that two sore thumbs, actually. In both funding and administration, our education... Read More
COMPROMISE
From an article in the L.A. Times, March 28th Alan Simpson has never shied away from sharing his convictions but a recent article in the LA Times elevated him in our esteem. The former Wyoming Senator... Read More
Time for McCrory to step up
Governor Pat McCrory hasn’t said much about the spiteful power grab by Senate Republicans to void a lease agreement between the state and the City of Raleigh that would turn the Dorothea Dix land... Read More
Dix: Two Wrongs Don't Make It Right
Here’s our bottom line on the Dix property feud. Governor Perdue was wrong on several levels to have committed the state to an agreement over the Dorothea Dix property, but so is the legislature... Read More
McCrory's budget
For the first time in a very long time the media and the General Assembly recognize the Governor has a budget. Generally, in the past, no one cared if the Governor presented a budget because it was... Read More
The Optimist
Bowater, as his friends call him, is a local Democrat – and an incurable optimist. While Republican preen and strut with power and Democrats wring their hands with worry, Bowater remain serenely... Read More
Governor's Budget Proposal
For the past four years, a few NC SPIN panelists have advocated a governor who wanted to lead a good executive branch-not just another education governor. Governor McCrory's proposed budget is another... Read More
