Hagan stimulus grants
n the homestretch of the Senate race between incumbent Kay Hagan and challenger Thom Tillis, the disclosure that Hagan’s family profited from the 2009 stimulus package she voted for has drawn a... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Tillis best for Senate
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, October 18, 2014 The U.S. Senate race between incumbent Kay Hagan and challenger, N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis, is among the nation’s tightest as... Read More
Difficult week for Democrats as disaffected women and blacks drive down favorability to 1984 lows
Women and Blacks Down on Democratic Party: According to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted October 9-12, 2014, the Democratic Party has the worst Favorable (39%) to Unfavorable... Read More
NC needs a patient investment in higher education
Two decades ago, the world looked promising for electronic pagination systems workers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, armed with the kind of confidence known only to oracles and mathematicians... Read More
Tillis-Hagan showdown could be nation's most expensive Senate race ever
From the Koch brothers and Art Pope to George Soros and Michael Bloomberg, wealthy donors are making North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race one of America’s first $100 million contests. Outside groups... Read More
Tillis race should make McCrory nervous
If the polls are to be believed, Republicans are on the verge of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in North Carolina’s Senate race. All the fundamentals favored the GOP. No Democratic... Read More
The Senate race
Editor's note: This is a compilation of a series of blogs posted by the author Months ago, back when she started her campaign, Kay Hagan faced a knotty problem: She was going to get the Democratic... Read More
Inside the war rooms
In the state where President Obama had his closest win in 2008 and his closest loss in 2012, why wouldn’t the U.S. Senate race be tight as a tick? Carter has posted a great series of blogs about... Read More
American schools are training kids for a world that doesn't exist
Are Americans getting dumber? Our math skills are falling. Our reading skills are weakening. Our children have become less literate than children in many developed countries. But the crisis in... Read More
Profit sharing
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, October 18, 2014. When a power company gets a tax break, are its customers entitled to share in it? Yes, the N.C. Utilities Commission said in May. No, it said... Read More
