NC Spin Articles

How much racism do we have in the U.S.?

The tragic event at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC, has become a focal point for a wide variety of issues confronting not just Charleston and the Palmetto State, but more...    Read More

June 28, 2015


Agreement may be elusive in legislature

Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, June 27, 2015. It was likely a portent of things to come when state lawmakers adjourned for the weekend without reaching agreement on a continuing resolution to fund...    Read More

June 28, 2015


Still not enough

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 28, 2015. Two years ago, North Carolina lawmakers approved one of the strictest — or worst, depending on your reading of events — voter identification...    Read More

June 28, 2015




Excluded no more

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 27, 2015. It always has seemed a peculiar trope that gay couples who wanted to wed somehow were besmirching the institution. Justice Anthony Kennedy addressed...    Read More

June 27, 2015

Cutting teacher assistants defies logic

Last week the N.C. Senate approved a budget that includes a $57.5 million cut to teacher assistant funding. This would eliminate 5,200 teacher assistant positions in the next school year and more than...    Read More

June 27, 2015



Another relic of racist past

It is indeed time to rethink a relic of the South’s legacy of racism – progressivism. The news is about Confederate flags or statutes of rebel leaders. As a Yankee I’ll stay out of that...    Read More

June 26, 2015