NC Spin Articles


Temporary setback for same-sex marriage

Editorial by Charlotte Observer, November 9, 2014. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dealt a startling blow to homosexuals last week when it upheld same-sex marriage bans in Kentucky...    Read More

November 10, 2014



Five lessons about money in politics from 2014

Well, that was expensive. And loud. The 2014 U.S. Senate campaign in North Carolina led the nation in money-fueled sound and fury and, in many ways, set the stage for the 2016, when a trio of hugely...    Read More

November 10, 2014

Valuing teachers

Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, November 9, 2014. During the campaign, while candidates were busy tossing around numbers about the N.C. school budget and claiming to be champions of education...    Read More

November 10, 2014

Best pollster in NC was....

Polling, it is said, is more of an art than a science. Pollsters are among the first to say this — particularly when the products, causes, or candidates they project to succeed fall flat. When their...    Read More

by John Hood   |   November 10, 2014


Failure to teach reading inexcusable

UNC’s flagship institution made national headlines last month, when investigator Kenneth Wainstein exposed Chapel Hill’s massive academic fraud, the beneficiaries of which were disproportionately...    Read More

November 9, 2014


What does it take to be black enough?

I am the great-great-grandson of an American slave, Amanda Gibbs, and the great-grandson of a free black man, Sylvester Wickliff, whose account of his life is among the slave narratives compiled in...    Read More

November 8, 2014