NC Spin Articles

Governing is a rigged game

by Paul O'Connor, The Insider, published in Asheville Citizen-Times, May 31, 2017. Imagine you’re running a match-play golf tournament. Your team will face another for a big cash prize, and you...    Read More

June 1, 2017

Are lawmakers bypassing road spending cap?

by Jim Tynen, Civitas Institute, June 1, 2017. Are some state legislators trying bypass a law meant to keep transportation spending under control? Yesterday a Senate committee approved House Bill...    Read More

June 1, 2017

Can urban and rural areas get along?

by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, May 26, 2017. My wife and I have one foot in rural regions and the other in big cities. We were both born and raised in small towns – I in an...    Read More

June 1, 2017








Pay raise could lessen regulation

I have been writing a regular column on North Carolina politics and public policy since 1986. Over three decades of writing about and talking to politicians in Raleigh, few issues have come up more...    Read More

by John Hood   |   May 26, 2017