NC Spin Articles

Art Pope gives the UNC System a checkup

Editorial by News and Observer, September 7, 2014. Was Art Pope, who is leaving his post as state budget director, giving the University of North Carolina Board of Governors an educated critique of...    Read More

September 8, 2014




Don't discount Internet polls

The latest poll on North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race has Republican Thom Tillis (43 percent) and Democrat Kay Hagan (42 percent) neck-and-neck, with Libertarian Sean Haugh at 5 percent and...    Read More

by John Hood   |   September 8, 2014


UNC System progress

When Republicans won their legislative majorities in 2010 and expanded them in 2012, they ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism and reform. They’ve largely delivered on it. Tax and regulatory...    Read More

by John Hood   |   September 7, 2014


Harming health care

Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, September 6, 2014. Turning back the clock on four decades of advances in health care for rural, underserved communities is no way to lessen state budget...    Read More

September 7, 2014


An empty race for the US Senate

Editorial by News and Observer, September 6, 2014. The race between Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan and her Republican challenger, House Speaker Thom Tillis, already stands as the most expensive Senate...    Read More

September 7, 2014


'Kay' and 'Speaker Tillis'

Candidates and their advisers spend a lot of time during debate prep thinking about how to address their opponent, so it was no happenstance that Tillis called Hagan “Kay” and she called him...    Read More

September 6, 2014