NC races tight across the board
PPP's newest North Carolina poll continues to find close races for all the major statewide office. In the Governor's race Roy Cooper has a slight advantage with 43% to 42% for Pat McCrory, and 4% for... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Judges right to throw out 2013 election law
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, August 8, 2016. The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent examination and rejection of key provisions of the state legislature’s 2013 voter law leaves... Read More
McCrory, aides protest too much in well dispute
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, August 12, 2016. Maybe Gov. Pat McCrory has forgotten the time-tested wisdom about what you do when you find yourself in a hole. For reasons that aren't clear, he's... Read More
Contaminated facts
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 12, 2016. Drink at your own risk? A steady drip of accusations and counter accusations became a tainted overflow Wednesday when the state epidemiologist... Read More
McCrory continues criticism of coal ash scientist contamination warnings
Gov. Pat McCrory for the first time Thursday personally addressed allegations by two state scientists who have said administration officials provided a "false narrative" to the public over how top... Read More
Racially tainted legislative districts must be redrawn
Lawmakers unconstitutionally used race when they drew legislative boundaries for state House and state Senate members in 2011, a panel of three federal district court judges ruled Thursday afternoon... Read More
2017 Policies should continue to focus on growth
The 2016 N.C. legislative session was short, but full of significant action: limiting the growth of government, cutting taxes, paying down debt, building savings, raising teacher pay by almost... Read More
State is hurting itself for no reason
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, August 7, 2016. A few tweaks were made to HB2, but the law remains mainly intact. We believe the legislature should repeal it in its entirety and start over. With... Read More
Donald Trump is right: People could vote 10 times
Presidential candidate Donald Trump in a FOX News interview said, “People are going to walk in and vote ten times maybe — who knows?” Trump couldn’t be more right. Without safeguards in our... Read More
A review of the Democratic, Republican conventions
Modern-day nominating conventions have become nothing more than ‘infomercials’ for both political parties, and this year's Democratic and Republican national party conventions were indeed that... Read More
