Spellings to lead UNC System
After a tumultuous seven-month search, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted unanimously Friday to name a former member of President George W. Bush's cabinet as the next president... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Restoring the doctor-patient relationship
The excessive amount of government intervention that has been entrenched in our nation’s health care system is curiously pushing medical providers to channel this negative energy into positive... Read More
N.C. rises to No. 2 on Forbes' "Best States for Business and Careers" list
North Carolina has risen to No. 2 on Forbes’ “Best States For Business and Careers” ranking, again moving up one spot. The Tarheel State has now moved up one spot in the rankings every year... Read More
You Decide: Will Medicaid reform work?
Medicaid is the public program assisting limited-income households with their health care expenditures. Begun in 1965, the program is jointly funded by the federal and state governments. In North... Read More
When Piedmont Airlines made our world a little larger
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, October 20, 2015. US Airways passed silently into aviation history Saturday, completing a merger that absorbed it into American Airlines. It’s a once-thriving... Read More
Must love dogs
Long ago the bib-overall wearing editor of a small weekly newspaper in Raleigh published a story claiming Jim Hunt was gay. There wasn’t a word of truth in it. He’d made it up and splashed it... Read More
Cutting through the confusion about McCrory and coal ash
t’s probably getting tough for most people to keep up with all the court cases, settlements, and fines surrounding coal ash contamination at sites across North Carolina owned by Duke Energy. Every... Read More
On a first name basis
by Thomas Mills, Politics NC, October 22, 2015. I don’t usually make too many political predictions because politics is so unpredictable. That said, I’m going to make some predictions about the... Read More
Baggage-toting Spellings the antithesis of able UNC leaders
On the second day of her job as secretary of education in the George W. Bush administration in 2004, Margaret Spellings sent a letter to the CEO of PBS demanding that a children’s show that featured... Read More
Cooper emphasizing family values
When Attorney General Roy Cooper officially announced his bid for governor in 2016 last week, he didn’t steal the show at the event in his honor in Rocky Mount. His three grown daughters did. And if... Read More
