NC Spin Articles


Do politicians really want to lead?

As another year draws to a close, a year of Democratic resurgence in both national and local politics, I offer this challenge to incumbent and newly elected lawmakers alike. Do you really want to be...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 26, 2018




Will the economy retreat in 2019?

by Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, December 21, 2018. It’s that time of year when economists are looked to as fortune-tellers. The fortune, in this case, is our collective well-being tied...    Read More

December 26, 2018



Public won't accept green taxes

I know that environmental activists don’t want to hear this, but a core component of their preferred strategy for combatting global warming — substantially raising the price of fossil fuels...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 26, 2018


Dave Boliek: The newsman's newsman

by Tom Campbell, Producer and Moderator of NC SPIN, December 24, 2018. He was the most irreverent and profane newsmen I ever worked with…and he was proud of both. Dave Boliek, died Monday in...    Read More

December 24, 2018


Trade views are hard to measure

There has always been a robust political debate between advocates of free trade and advocates of manipulating the terms of trade to protect special interests. But the partisan affiliations of these...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 20, 2018