NC Spin Articles

How can we get to four percent growth?

by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU professor of Economics, February 3, 2017. One of the major goals of the new Trump Administration is to increase the rate of economic growth in the country. The objective is to...    Read More

February 10, 2017

Repeal HB2 - and do it now

Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, February 9, 2017. The General Assembly had better act fast. As the N.C. Sports Association warned legislators this week, the NCAA is within days of nailing down...    Read More

February 10, 2017

Local black history informs all of us

Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, February 3, 2017. Black History Month in Wilmington is haunted by a lot of ghosts. Many of them are the ghosts of Nov. 10, 1898, when white mobs burned a black-owned...    Read More

February 3, 2017


Politics and woodpiles

A memorable and wholesome political event occurred in downtown Raleigh in early January. It was memorable because the purpose was to commemorate what became a landmark change in North Carolina...    Read More

February 3, 2017


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