NC Spin Articles

Hard to fathom how scandal lasted so long

The most shocking aspect of the academic and athletics scandal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has nothing to do with cheating and nothing to do with sports. It's that it wasn't...    Read More

October 28, 2014

Democrats up in early voting in NC

arly voting started at a fast clip, with nearly 300,000 votes cast at one-stop sites in the first four days, according to the State Board of Elections. Turnout is being watched closely because the...    Read More

October 28, 2014



Dethroning the SAT

Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, October 26, 2014. Some eyebrows may have been raised by plans for a pilot program at N. C. Central University and two other historically black campuses in the UNC...    Read More

October 27, 2014


More hospital consolidation expected

Shrinking revenue streams, particularly the squeeze on federal and state reimbursement rates, are compelling more health-care systems to enter some form of merger or cost-savings partnership...    Read More

October 27, 2014



Magistrates resign over gay marriage ruling

When a federal judge cleared the legal path for same-sex marriage in North Carolina earlier this month, it set off a flurry of weddings and celebrations, mostly in urban areas of the state. But the...    Read More

October 27, 2014

1,425 NC voters in question

The State Board of Elections said Friday that 1,425 names on the voter rolls of North Carolina belong to people who likely do not meet one basic requirement to cast a ballot: U.S. citizenship...    Read More

October 27, 2014


Economy isn't stuck in limbo

Which picture of North Carolina’s recent past is more accurate? I’ll call the two alternatives Tar Heel Limbo and Tar Heel Heaven. (And, no, I’m not referring to the fake-class scandal at UNC...    Read More

by John Hood   |   October 27, 2014