Governor McCrory leaves office with a whimper
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, December 20, 2016. Stop us if you’ve heard this one. The North Carolina legislature passes a bad bill and sends it to Gov. Pat McCrory. McCrory says the bill... Read More
NC Spin Articles
After 5 year legal battle, NC Supreme Court rules Asheville can keep water
If it were whiskey, not water, that flowed from the taps in the City of Asheville, then perhaps the state’s highest court would not have had to intervene. But whiskey is for drinking, Mark Twain... Read More
Trump truths
The Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, gave us the Electoral College. Now the Electoral College has given us President Trump. We know he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes, and we know... Read More
A plague on both their houses
The devil never sleeps; for four years the Republican powers-that-be in Raleigh worked and strained to have Pat McCrory appoint their sons, cousins, friends and contributors to patronage jobs – then... Read More
They own it
The GOP continues to bring shame to the state of North Carolina. Last week, they stripped power from the newly elected Democratic governor and gave it to themselves. Yesterday, they spent $42,000 of... Read More
But Johnny does it
by Paul O'Connor, Capitol Press Association, published in The Rocky Mount Telegram, December 21, 2016. Imagine that after years of bad cell phone service you changed providers three months ago and... Read More
North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy
In 2005, in the midst of a career of traveling around the world to help set up elections in some of the most challenging places on earth – Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, Lebanon, South Africa, Sudan and... Read More
Legislature misses chance to erase a scar
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, December 22, 2016. Pardon us if we sound like a broken record, but House Bill 2 is an abominable piece of legislation and it needs to be repealed — yesterday... Read More
House Bill 2: Laughing to keep from crying
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 22, 2016. What our state GOP leaders might be singing, with apologies to James Pierpont, the creator of Jingle Bells. Dashing through news shows On a... Read More
Rising population adds to state's political clout
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, December 23, 2016. There really is strength in numbers, at least in the political sense. In a growing state like North Carolina, that's easy to see. The Census... Read More
