NC Spin Articles


UNC faces third notice of allegations

North Carolina again faces an NCAA charge for providing improper extra benefits tied to its multi-year academic fraud scandal. The school on Thursday released a third Notice of Allegations (NOA) from...    Read More

December 23, 2016



Special sessions that are anything but special

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 23, 2016. Leave it to a late-night TV host, Seth Meyers, to provide a perfect description of the abomination of leadership that has been North Carolina...    Read More

December 23, 2016

Health reform needs state leaders

As recent events have reminded us, North Carolina’s state government is not a precise analogue to the federal government. Its leadership is more diffuse. The state legislature is stronger, relative...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 23, 2016

Who killed the HB2 repeal?

by Mark Binker, WRAL, December 22, 2016. Shortly after the state Senate finished a day filled with rancor and mistrust by rejecting efforts to repeal House Bill 2, the controversial measure dealing...    Read More

December 23, 2016




Government for the benefit of the GOP

Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, December 16, 2016. In the preamble of North Carolina’s Constitution, the authors listed the two reasons for its existence -- “the more certain security (of the...    Read More

December 16, 2016


What will happen to the economy in 2017?

by Mike Walden, NC State Professor of Economics, December 9, 2017. I often begin my economic outlook presentations with the following joke: Professional economists are frequently called upon to make...    Read More

December 16, 2016