NC Spin Articles

Energy costs matter

Energy is necessary for just about everything we do. And when the cost of energy goes up, we pay more over and over and over. Residential customers pay more to keep the lights on and the refrigerator...    Read More

by Becki Gray   |   April 9, 2015


Wrong way to help rural areas

Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, April 7, 2015. Harry Brown of Jacksonville, the majority leader of the N.C. Senate, is right when he notes that the state's rural areas are lagging their urban...    Read More

April 8, 2015



Supporting Duke, not legislators

48% of North Carolinians say they're rooting for Duke to win the national championship tonight, compared to 30% who say they aren't pulling for them to win. What might be most interesting is that for...    Read More

April 8, 2015

The graying of North Carolina

Call it the "graying of North Carolina." The state is getting older, a phenomenon that will bring with it many issues and problems for government to address in the coming years and decades. Some...    Read More

April 8, 2015


Mind your own business

Recent events lead me to restate an argument I made several years ago in response to a belligerent correspondent: mind your own business. No, I wasn’t giving him the brush-off. "Mind your own...    Read More

by John Hood   |   April 8, 2015

Moving our courts forward

One of the founding principles of our state and country is fair and equal access to the courts without delay. This is becoming harder and harder in North Carolina. While our population has grown...    Read More

April 7, 2015



Blow up

You could hear Republican heads exploding when the President announced a deal to keep Iran from building a nuclear weapon. Predictably, Republicans sided with Bibi over Obama.    There is something...    Read More

April 7, 2015