NC Spin Articles

North Carolina is protecting drinking water

Recent media stories and editorials have given support to the questionable and inconsistent scientific conclusions reached by toxicologist Ken Rudo and have created unnecessary fear and confusion...    Read More

August 15, 2016

Gerrymandering by race fails a court test

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, August 15, 2016. The architects of the current maps of General Assembly districts billed them as complying with the law and the Constitution, saying they fully...    Read More

August 15, 2016

NC's voter registration upheaval (2012-1016)

While talking heads say North Carolina is going from a reliably red state to a purple or blue state, the reality on the ground in North Carolina actually looks different. Although North Carolina may...    Read More

August 15, 2016




Teacher pay ideas get test

Try something new? I’m all for it. But whether you are talking about changing your diet, changing your career, or changing your government’s public policy, it’s often a good idea to proceed in...    Read More

by John Hood   |   August 15, 2016


Powerful ideas drive political debate

The science fiction pioneer H.G. Wells once observed that “human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.” This is a wise observation — and it speaks to the political debate we’ve been...    Read More

by John Hood   |   August 12, 2016


Trump, Fox and Facebook

Donald Trump is not some weird, one-time, election-year anomaly. He’s the logical product of a Fox News/Facebook society. Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, put her finger on it. She said...    Read More

August 12, 2016


Flubs

A pundit on Fox News said, Trump flubbed during the primary and it didn’t matter. So why should it matter now? Sounds logical. But does the logic hold water? Back during the primary when I’d...    Read More

August 12, 2016