No holiday for campaigners
A year from now, either Roy Cooper’s team or Pat McCrory’s team will be sifting through resumes for the next administration. The losers will be polishing their own resumes. Right now, both teams... Read More
NC Spin Articles
The winnowing out process
Ben Carson already knew the world was not a kind place but, unfortunately, unkindness reached out and struck him again: A quarter of his supporters abandoned him for Ted Cruz. In a poll in Iowa a... Read More
Filing day
Elections usually aren’t won or lost on Election Day, the early voting period, or even during the campaign itself. Rather, they’re lost in the filing period and in particular the months leading up... Read More
Will conservative GOP mansplainers pave Clinton's way to Oval Office?
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, December 1, 2015. Clicking through the latest batch of newly released Hillary Clinton emails, the ninth one from the top of the list caught my eye. How could it not... Read More
History has a promising future
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, December 1, 2015. For a community of historic buildings putting the past on display, the Eastern Carolina Village and Farm Museum has a promising future... Read More
NCAE membership numbers; the wait continues
Regular readers of this web site know that over the years we’ve chronicled the decline in NEA/NCAE membership. Our interest in these numbers stems from the radical views of both organizations as... Read More
A bittersweet legacy for the common core
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, November 27, 2015. Two decades from now, or whenever people start to wonder again why we don’t know if a North Carolina education is as good as a Maryland education... Read More
Legislative retirements headline first day of candidate filing
Nearly 20 members of the General Assembly, including several powerful veteran lawmakers, will not be running for re-election in 2016, and that number could swell as the candidate filing period that... Read More
Urban voters still outnumbered
Commentators and academic analysts trying to make sense of North Carolina’s fascinating and ever-changing politics have been arguing lately that the state is becoming increasingly urbanized — and... Read More
The wrecking crew
In October 2011, just a few months after the end of the first General Assembly session controlled by Republicans in more than a hundred years, House Speaker Thom Tillis told a small group of GOP... Read More
