Nonpartisan races work best for city
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 11, 2017. The Charlotte Observer paid Greensboro a compliment in an editorial last week. It said Greensboro’s nonpartisan City Council elections are... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Don't play politics with GenX mess
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, August 10, 2017. In the worrisome saga of GenX pollution in the Cape Fear River, the to-do list is long. As the investigation proceeds, we expect the list will grow... Read More
Tillis right on counsel
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, August 9, 2017. Republican Thom Tillis, one of North Carolina’s two U.S. senators, has rightly joined Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware in a bill that would... Read More
School bus bill puts private companies in driver's seat
Drivers who pass stopped school buses could get fined up to $1,000 under a bill that Gov. Roy Cooper signed on July 25 – but the hefty fine isn’t why legislators from both parties opposed the... Read More
North Carolinians oppose DOJ cuts, down on Trump
PPP's new North Carolina poll finds strong, bipartisan opposition to cuts the General Assembly has made to the budget of the North Carolina Department of Justice. Only 18% of voters support the... Read More
Enough stalling, GOP, draw the maps
by Paul O'Connor, Capitol Press Association, published in Rocky Mount Telegram, August 9, 2017. The wrangling between federal judges and GOP legislators brings to mind an episode from early childhood... Read More
Poll says NCGOP starts the 2018 election cycle in a deep hole
The political environment is tough for Republicans in North Carolina right now. At the national level, Donald Trump is scaring the world with reckless tweets about nuclear war with North Korea and the... Read More
Empathy, not policy
Democrats love policy. We dream of being policy advisers and writing policy papers. We just know that those working-class whites who voted for Trump would love us if they got a load of our worker... Read More
NC Must change education to win job wars
States and countries that figure out how to compete in the coming jobs wars will be big economic winners, Lewis Ebert, president and CEO of the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce, told about... Read More
Hotly contested local races set to take the stage in NC
Across the state, this year’s historically crowded municipal elections have drawn new types of candidates. Young candidates. First time candidates. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender candidates... Read More
