What if NC matters?
If the current calendar of 2016 presidential primaries and caucusesdoesn’t change, North Carolina’s late-February contest will be one of the nation’s earliest. After Mitt Romney’s... Read More
NC Spin Articles
In the morgue
EMS medics found Larry Green lying face down by the road with a head wound and no vital signs – he’d been hit by a car. But, then, when a state Medical Examiner, Dr. J.B. Perdue, arrived and... Read More
Young black males need demonstrators, not protestors
During my years of teaching middle school, I taught more than a thousand young black males. I saw many of them come into sixth grade from elementary school smiling but leave eighth grade for high... Read More
Governing by illusion in N.C.
The political contest in North Carolina is no longer between Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats have been vanquished, undone by their disorganization and lack of conviction and gerrymandered... Read More
The jig is up comrades; head for the hills
Intrepid Civitas sleuths have unearthed our vast and shadowy network Urgent Memorandum To: All current and former assets in the Vast and Shadowy Network of Leftist North Carolina Activists (“VSNLNCA... Read More
Is North Carolina the State of Technology?
We may have significant work to do, but North Carolina is on its way. At least, that’s the intimation of the North Carolina Technology Association's (NCTA) first North Carolina State of... Read More
Vows sworn in churches
Lord, deliver us – the Supreme Court is about to tell us who can and can’t marry. Marriage as an institution twists and turns back into the mists of time but will a judge even ask how – and... Read More
Profiles in courage from NC Chamber
Folks at the North Carolina Chamber want state lawmakers to do something about the shortage of funding to build and maintain roads in North Carolina, but would rather not talk about how to raise the... Read More
An ominous start to the General Assembly
The conventional wisdom in Raleigh before state lawmakers came back to town this week was that this General Assembly session would be less contentious than the last two, that leaders of the Republican... Read More
529's: Big blunder in Washington, barely noticed in Raleigh
It was "the first political debacle of 2015" for President Obama, wrote Charles Lane of the Washington Post: "Under fire from Republicans and even House Democratic leaders, the White House withdrew... Read More
