NC Spin Articles

NC loses in high stakes incentives game

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, reprinted in Jacksonville Daily News, September 28, 2017. We weren’t even close. The winner played Major League Baseball. We barely made it to Little League. When...    Read More

September 29, 2017


Toxic politics wins out on GenX response

Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, September 24, 2017. We confess that we’ve been terribly naive. When we found out that an unregulated and possibly harmful chemical was being deliberately...    Read More

September 29, 2017


Take time with judicial tinkering

While legislative and congressional districts are redrawn every 10 years to match population changes — so everyone’s vote counts equally — North Carolina’s judicial districts haven’t been...    Read More

September 29, 2017


Quicken the pace on school reform

The annual testing data and report cards for North Carolina’s public schools are out. Here are the headlines. Achievement rose in some areas and declined in others, with most changes being fairly...    Read More

by John Hood   |   September 22, 2017



A public utility?

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, September 22, 2017. This week’s court ruling against a Greensboro church’s solar-power deal shouldn’t be the last word on the matter. Durham nonprofit NC...    Read More

September 22, 2017

Let the judges draw the districts

Editorial by The Fayetteville Observer, September 19, 2017. The lawyers who argued that many of this state’s legislative districts were racially gerrymandered say the latest redistricting didn’t...    Read More

September 22, 2017


Fairness in education

Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, September 18, 2017. Good for a three-judge panel that has delayed a new state law that would shift power from the state school board to the state school...    Read More

September 22, 2017