NC Spin Articles

High Point Poll: Senate race too close to call

News release by High Point University Poll, September 22, 2014. The first HPU Poll of the 2014 fall semester finds that the race for U.S. Senate between incumbent Senator Kay Hagan and North Carolina...    Read More

September 23, 2014

Voting that puts us to shame

Editorial by Burlington Times-News, September 22, 2014. There’s a number from Scotland’s failed referendum on independence that should amaze and shame us: 84.6. That’s the percentage of eligible...    Read More

September 23, 2014

FDR and Gary Hart

Ken Burns’ remarkable series on the Roosevelts makes it clear that Franklin D. Roosevelt never would have passed the Gary Hart adultery test.   Would that have been good for America?   As Burns...    Read More

September 23, 2014


Ramping up efforts to curb domestic violence

Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, September 22, 2014. Across Northwest North Carolina today, just as every day, women (and men) will be assaulted in every way imaginable by their supposed loved ones...    Read More

September 23, 2014

Ruling OK, but program is unconstitutional

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, September 22, 2014. Parents seeking better schools for their kids were left in limbo when a court struck down the state's Opportunity Scholarships program last...    Read More

September 23, 2014

Better mental health care in NC

Your Aug. 9 editorial “ Treatment does more than jail for most mentally ill offenders” and the recent news article on extended timeframes for mental evaluations highlight the national issue that...    Read More

September 23, 2014


Panel begins revision of Common Core standards

As part of legislation repealing the controversial Common Core academic standards in North Carolina public schools, a new state commission began the process Monday of reviewing math and English...    Read More

September 23, 2014

The 'dead moose' in the room

In a few years covering the Legislature, I don't recall hearing the words "dead" and "moose" uttered together in any legislative meeting. It happened last week. Embattled Health and Human Services...    Read More

September 23, 2014

Price tag for economic incentives: $800 million

While Gov. Pat McCrory says he won’t call the General Assembly back into session to push through an economic incentives package, he left the door open for calling lawmakers back to Raleigh if a big...    Read More

September 23, 2014


A nosedive

The way the President figures it the Iraqi army’s going to supply the ‘boots on the ground’ to whip ISIS but the other day, up in Congress, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs said half the Iraqi...    Read More

September 22, 2014