NC Spin Articles


The new enemy

Whether it was in his blood or whether, like a craft, it was a talent he honed he could walk into a board room and sell one group ‘the greatest deal ever’ in the morning and in the afternoon in...    Read More

February 3, 2017

Cooper's (familiar) challenge

Roy Cooper has seen this movie before. This time, he plays the lead. Thirty years ago, Cooper was a freshman House member. The Governor was a Republican. Democrats controlled the General Assembly...    Read More

February 3, 2017


Reaching younger voters

When the numbers were released in North Carolina, they showed that almost half of voters under 25 years old didn’t vote and over 40% of voters aged 26-40 stayed home. Hunter Buxton, executive...    Read More

February 3, 2017

Term limits tend to come naturally in Raleigh

by Paul O'Connor, Capitol Press Association, published in Rocky Mount Telegram, February 1, 2017. Visit your old neighborhood and you might find most things look the same. The trees may be taller...    Read More

February 3, 2017

Class size mandate bad choice for schools

Published by Greenville Daily Reflector, January 29, 2017. A provision slipped into the state budget over the summer offers more evidence that lawmakers are determined to gut public schools and steer...    Read More

February 3, 2017


Gorsuch well suited for highest court

Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, February 3, 2017. Republican President Trump has nominated an intellectual jurist and a good man to succeed the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Senate...    Read More

February 3, 2017

Add unfunded debts to lawmakers' challenges

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, February 3, 2017 Dale Folwell's nightmares often arrive with a title: unfunded liabilities. That may be a little esoteric for most of us, but when you're North...    Read More

February 3, 2017

Loaded language

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, February 3, 2017. As our Tweeter in Chief might have put it: “Sad.” A prominent North Carolina Republican this week removed a Facebook post that described the...    Read More

February 3, 2017