NC Spin Articles

Foley should leave state elections board

Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, July 14, 2015. Public trust is essential for any public official to be effective. State Board of Elections member Paul Foley is in danger of losing that trust. It...    Read More

July 15, 2015

Don't engage in statistical silliness

Should regulators require child-safety locks on stepladders? Such a rule would have been a real problem at the Hood abode years ago when my boys were little. At the time, there were a couple of...    Read More

by John Hood   |   July 15, 2015



N.C. voting law: illegal or just bad?

Editorial by Charlotte Observer, July 14, 2014.   North Carolina’s new voting laws are wrong-headed. But are they illegal or unconstitutional? That’s what U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder has...    Read More

July 14, 2015


Pure power play

Flexing its muscles, the Republican Establishment decided to put Donald Trump in his place – but missed that while Trump may be part whacko he’s also pure cutthroat: When the GOP Doyens sitting...    Read More

July 14, 2015



Voting law on trial

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 14, 2015. The voting rights trial that opened in federal court in Winston-Salem Monday is getting a wide audience but may not measure up to its big claims...    Read More

July 14, 2015

GOP claims union backing 'Moral Monday'

by Mark Binker, WRAL, July 13, 2015. The North Carolina Republican Party used a news conference in Winston-Salem Monday morning to spotlight what party leaders say is an unseemly connection between...    Read More

July 14, 2015