NC Spin Articles

DHHS' outside consultation is too costly

Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, September 16, 2014. The state Department of Health and Human Services is troubled, to say the least, and has been for some time. Discovering that DHHS continues to...    Read More

September 17, 2014

Hagan continues to lead by 4 points

PPP's newest North Carolina Senate poll finds the race steady compared to a month ago. Kay Hagan continues to lead by 4 points, with 44% to 40% for Thom Tillis and 5% for Libertarian Sean Haugh. Haugh...    Read More

September 17, 2014



Can politics be made clean?

The idea of ethical politics seems today to be an oxymoron – a contradiction in terms – sort of like civil war or diet chocolate cake. Doctors and lawyers have codes of conduct. So do many...    Read More

September 17, 2014

State raised school funding

Just before Labor Day, the publicly available polls of likely voters had incumbent U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan roughly tied with her Republican challenger, Thom Tillis. Since Labor Day, the polling average...    Read More

by John Hood   |   September 17, 2014

Women and men

More telling than Kay Hagan’s overall lead in the polls may be her overwhelming lead with women.   According to a Rasmussen Poll last week, Hagan leads Thom Tillis by six points, 45-39. But then it...    Read More

September 16, 2014


Not a combat mission

It turns out not having ‘boots on the ground’ isn’t quite what it seems. The other day when the President said he was sending 425 more soldiers to Iraq he added, These American forces will not...    Read More

September 16, 2014

State budget uncertain on income, costs

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, September 15, 2014. Lawmakers in the last two years have changed the revenue game in North Carolina. They rewrote most of the tax code and introduced new variables...    Read More

September 16, 2014

Political pill

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, September 16, 2014. Thom Tillis surprised many viewers during the first U.S. Senate debate when he endorsed over-the-counter sales of oral contraceptives, but he...    Read More

September 16, 2014


Exonerations shake faith in system

Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, September 10, 2014. Law enforcement officers, prosecutors and judges “get it right” many, many more times than they get it wrong, but a string of notorious...    Read More

September 16, 2014