NC Spin Articles


Controller: NCAE can keep payroll deductions

The North Carolina Association of Educators appears to have won the latest round in an ongoing dispute over whether it can have its members' dues deducted directly from their paychecks. In a letter...    Read More

March 25, 2016







Heat without reason

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 23, 2016. Today’s special legislation session is fueled by red-hot emotion. The public should demand cool reason instead. Lawmakers clamoring to overturn a...    Read More

March 24, 2016

Governor's re-election won't be that easy

Three hours after John Davis released his optimistic column on Governor McCrory’s re-election chances, based mostly on the successful passage of the $2 billion bond issue on March 15, I wrote John...    Read More

March 24, 2016



Let's learn how to disagree

When it comes to politics, North Carolina is a closely divided state in many ways. Look at party, for instance. According to an early-March poll for WRAL-TV, 32 percent of registered voters in our...    Read More

by John Hood   |   March 23, 2016