NC Spin Articles

An education agenda for 2015

Now that the North Carolina General Assembly has convened its 2015 session, let’s look at what legislators have done over the last four years to improve our public schools and consider what they...    Read More

January 15, 2015






Take from the rich, give to the poor?

Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 12, 2015. Take from the rich, give to the poor. That’s not a mantra you typically hear coming from North Carolina’s conservative Republican lawmakers. But...    Read More

January 14, 2015



Democrats hope to avoid further defections

When a state House member from the Outer Banks changed his political party to unaffiliated last week, it represented one more blow for an endangered species at the legislature: the rural, moderate...    Read More

January 14, 2015

UNC policy on race draws lawsuit

Another wave of bad publicity and legal questions isn’t what the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill needs right now. But that’s exactly what the school is getting, thanks to its...    Read More

by John Hood   |   January 14, 2015


Session numbers

A few numbers to consider for opening day of the 2015 legislative session: 199.2: In millions of dollars, amount the General Fund is below the consensus revenue target through December, according to...    Read More

January 14, 2015