NC Spin Articles


Coastal warning

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, January 7, 2015. Politicians imposed a 30-year time limit on sea-level forecasts for North Carolina’s coast, but the scientists made their point anyway. Sea...    Read More

January 9, 2015

Courts agree GOP overstepped abortion law

Critics of Republican leadership in the General Assembly are often quick to use words such as "extreme" to describe policies pushed by the majority. Republicans use the same rhetoric about Democrats...    Read More

January 9, 2015


They walk the line

John Boehner, Jeb Bush and Pat McCrory took their first steps this week along a Republican Party fault line that offers peril for each of them – and peril for Democrats if they succeed.   Boehner...    Read More

January 8, 2015

Rumors and fiction

In a realm filled with rumors in the blink of an eye fictions take root in fertile soil and blossom adopting the image of spoken truth like this one you’ve heard a hundred times: ‘Romney lost...    Read More

January 8, 2015



Fuel tax reform

Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, January 7, 2015. As fuel prices are decreasing at a record rate, North Carolina’s gas tax actually climbed a penny on Jan. 1. Unfortunately, the new revenue...    Read More

January 8, 2015

Teacher turnover down, reasons unclear

Projections about a mass teacher exodus in North Carolina sparked by Republican legislative policies not only have failed to materialize, but also turnover rates declined last year, according to an...    Read More

January 8, 2015

Early lessons in journalistic bias

I’ve been writing about media bias for 20-plus years, since that day in the early ’90s when the scales fell from my eyes and I saw what was happening in my chosen profession. I was managing editor...    Read More

January 8, 2015