NC Spin Articles

Will HB2 help take down the Mayor, too?

Editorial by Charlotte Observer, March 11, 2017. It’s an annual rite of voting to complain about the quality of choices we have in elections. Too many races feature too few candidates who seem...    Read More

March 13, 2017


Political ads remain key tool

Despite being vastly outspent by the campaign and supporters of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump won the 2016 election. Some are suggesting that the outcome has transformed the practice of American...    Read More

by John Hood   |   March 13, 2017


Cooper budget signals Left's defeat

Roy Cooper has just submitted his first budget proposal as governor of North Carolina. It is a political document — and I don’t mean that as an insult. Cooper is a Democrat facing Republican...    Read More

by John Hood   |   March 10, 2017


Put the people first

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 10, 2017. State legislators in North Carolina are paid less than $14,000 a year, so some of them trade their experience for more lucrative opportunities as...    Read More

March 10, 2017


GOP should join governor in education push

Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, March 5, 2017. With his first budget proposal, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has staked out the high ground in supporting public education. We hope the state...    Read More

March 10, 2017

Deep divisions produce political charades

Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, reprinted in Greenville Daily Reflector, March 6, 2017. Three times last week, a state Senate committee summoned Larry Hall to be vetted for his appointment to head the...    Read More

March 10, 2017

Raise the age

Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, March 9, 2017. In North Carolina, you’re not old enough to vote until you are 18. But as young as 16, you’re old enough to automatically be tried as an adult, even...    Read More

March 10, 2017


A novel way citizens can end gerrymandering

North Carolina’s current system of gerrymandered voting districts is indeed harmful. Undemocratic and alien to American values, gerrymandering – drawing electoral districts to favor certain...    Read More

March 10, 2017