NC Spin Articles

GOP Senators push for government transparency

Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, February 17, 2017. Every year, the General Assembly seems to sprout a bumper crop of bills that are downright loony. One of our current favorites is Sen. Dan Bishop...    Read More

February 24, 2017

Locking in the future

by Paul O'Connor, Capitol Press Association, published in Asheville Citizen-Times, February 21, 2017. Legislative Republicans are acting as though their days are numbered. Having remade the state’s...    Read More

February 24, 2017

NC's mandated middlemen hurt brewery business

by Kristie Nystedt, John Marrino and Suzie Ford, published in Asheville Citizen-Times, February 20, 2017. Imagine for a moment that you start a small business. You invest your life savings, take...    Read More

February 24, 2017


Latest HB2 Repeal bill has bipartisan backing

by Matt Caulder, Capitol Connection, February 23, 2017. The latest in a string of HB 2 repeal bills was filed in the state House on Wednesday, but HB 186 has a new twist to it: Both Republicans and...    Read More

February 24, 2017

No one wants oversight - especially faculty

The UNC Faculty Assembly is tattling on its governing bodies. In a memo to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the Assembly listed 17 “serious concerns” about the North Carolina...    Read More

February 24, 2017



Better pay may yield better government

Editorial by Burlington Times-News, February 15, 2017. Give 'em a raise. That's the bottom line on lawmakers' bottom line, which is that they're working for peanuts. Peanuts is what we get back, you...    Read More

February 17, 2017




Up in smoke

The phones began ringing and kept on ringing and each caller said the same thing: ‘I want you to hold more ‘Town Hall’ meetings.’ Sensing a groundswell of support for Town Hall Meetings...    Read More

February 17, 2017