Got to pick a pocket?
Did Fagin’s pickpockets stimulate the economy of London? If you’ve read Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist or seen the musical derived from it, Oliver!, you immediately recognize the name. Fagin... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Remembering Pearl: The 'Greatest Generation' rose
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 7, 2014. This is an updated version of an editorial we published on Dec. 7, 2006. Seventy-three years ago today, Japanese air and naval forces attacked... Read More
Is this the return of moderate Mayor Pat
Has Mayor Pat finally arrived in Raleigh? You know, the guy who was the popular mayor of Charlotte, a Democratic-leaning city, for a record 14 years. One was wondering whether that McCrory – the... Read More
NC health insurance rates vary widely, depending on where you live
A smoker of two packs of cigarettes a day, Karen Carlton is looking at a $684 monthly health insurance bill starting in January. Her affection for Misty Menthol Silvers will cost Carlton $114 a month... Read More
Good luck, bad luck
Talk about a fellow being star-crossed – after the election as everyone took a deep breath and settled back peacefully for Thanksgiving the Governor, without a lot of hoopla, quietly launched his... Read More
Hagan and Obama, part II
You know it was a bad story when somebody says at breakfast, “Did Senator Hagan know she was being quoted when she said that about Obama?” We don’t know. But we do know that Hagan’s... Read More
McCrory's short memory on the length of campaigns
McCrory’s short memory about the length of campaigns It was just a month ago that Governor Pat McCrory complained in a post midterm election interview about the almost constant cycle of... Read More
New speaker troubles eeyore caucus
When the news broke that Rep. Tim Moore would be the Republican nominee for speaker of the North Carolina House and Rep. Mike Hager would be majority leader, the usual suspects did the usual things... Read More
Hey, buddy. Can you donate a kidney?
About two decades ago, WRAL and WTVD ran a story about a young woman, Beverly Jones, who’d donated one of her kidneys to her husband whose kidneys had failed. Now usually, kidney donors have to be... Read More
Medicaid expansion not 'impossible' in North Carolina
State Senator Ralph Hise has an odd definition of impossible. Hise said after a recent meeting of a legislative study committee meeting on Medicaid that expanding the program in North Carolina under... Read More
