Temporary setback for same-sex marriage
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, November 9, 2014. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dealt a startling blow to homosexuals last week when it upheld same-sex marriage bans in Kentucky... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Former Tar Heels football player Michael McAdoo is again suing UNC
Former University of North Carolina football player Michael McAdoo is again attempting to sue the school, this time as the lead plaintiff of a class-action suit claiming he and other scholarship... Read More
Five lessons about money in politics from 2014
Well, that was expensive. And loud. The 2014 U.S. Senate campaign in North Carolina led the nation in money-fueled sound and fury and, in many ways, set the stage for the 2016, when a trio of hugely... Read More
Valuing teachers
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, November 9, 2014. During the campaign, while candidates were busy tossing around numbers about the N.C. school budget and claiming to be champions of education... Read More
Best pollster in NC was....
Polling, it is said, is more of an art than a science. Pollsters are among the first to say this — particularly when the products, causes, or candidates they project to succeed fall flat. When their... Read More
Failure to teach reading inexcusable
UNC’s flagship institution made national headlines last month, when investigator Kenneth Wainstein exposed Chapel Hill’s massive academic fraud, the beneficiaries of which were disproportionately... Read More
Election pollsters explain why they were wrong on the Senate race
In the days ahead of Tuesday’s election, 10 different opinion polls from national and local firms sought to determine the favored candidate in North Carolina’s Senate race. Most determined that... Read More
What does it take to be black enough?
I am the great-great-grandson of an American slave, Amanda Gibbs, and the great-grandson of a free black man, Sylvester Wickliff, whose account of his life is among the slave narratives compiled in... Read More
GOP officials talking nice for now, but not the think-tankers
For the most part top GOP officials in the state are behaving like adults after their big election win Tuesday night, keeping the gloating to a minimum, promising to get things done and work across... Read More
Why Hagan 2016 isn't going to happen
by John Wynne, Politics North Carolina, November 7, 2014. On a serious note, I first got wind of this talk on Twitter on Election Night, after Tillis was declared the victor. Most of it seemed to be... Read More
