The next presidential election
The Friday night before the election, walking to a table in a restaurant, I stopped to say hello to a lady I’ve known for years, and she asked, Well, tell me – what’s going to happen Tuesday... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Voting rights advocates spell out recommendations for Voter ID bill
In less than one week, after all the tryptophan has worn off, lawmakers will be back in Raleigh working on a measure that will require North Carolina voters to have a photo identification to cast a... Read More
Are our kids failing? Do we even care?
Hardly a week goes by without hearing news that North Carolina or some North Carolina city or town is achieving a high ranking on a business or quality of life survey. The steady influx of millennials... Read More
Lessons for Democrats from recent elections
What did North Carolina Democrats learn from the elections earlier this month? A few lessons: North Carolina Democrats learned the great advantages of recruiting good candidates to run in every... Read More
Senate moves closer to confirming Jesse Helms disciple to federal bench
If you’re looking for a hopeful sign about modern North Carolina, here’s a small one to buoy your spirits on a holiday week: Fewer and fewer North Carolinians have any idea who Jesse Helms was... Read More
NC Congressman making an impact from Civil War to WW II
I have shared a list about North Carolina politics with you before. It was fun, at least for me. Here’s another one. In no particular order, these are my top five most interesting and impactful... Read More
State employees, providers at odds over Treasurer's health plans
by Dan Way, Carolina Journal, November 16, 2018. State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s proposed cost-cutting reforms for the State Health Plan have drawn praise from state employees’ representatives and... Read More
Are taxes fair and spending effective?
by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of economics, November 20, 2018. Two topics of interest to most people are taxes and public spending. So whenever I find research focusing on these two areas... Read More
Falsehoods common in political debate
The great British statesman and writer Edmund Burke was a critic of his government’s treatment of the American colonies in the years preceding the Revolutionary War. In particular, he insisted that... Read More
Many political debates are a waste of time
Not that it is really in my interest to say this, but many of our political debates are a waste of time. They may well be about important issues. But they go nowhere. The two “sides” disagree... Read More
