NC Spin Articles

Governor steps in as legislature goes home

Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, August 5, 2014. Give Gov. Pat McCrory credit for stepping up as North Carolina legislators packed their bags to go home. Granted, the governor’s decision to order...    Read More

August 6, 2014

Who's directing this legislative traffic jam

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, August 6, 2014. They're going home. No, they're staying in Raleigh. Sort of. But don't count on it. So it goes with a "short session" that's anything but. The...    Read More

August 6, 2014

Unsatisfactory

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 6, 2014. We’d like to say the best thing about the General Assembly’s 2014 “short session” is that it’s over. But it’s not over. The out-of-sync...    Read More

August 6, 2014



Play politics with N.C. teacher salaries

It has been a long time between drinks of water for North Carolina’s public school teachers, victims of the recession and tax-cutting politics. So most will be glad to get an election-year raise...    Read More

August 6, 2014



State regresses on historic preservation

Editorial by Salisbury Post, August 3, 2014. It’s difficult to strike up the band and hold a Main Street parade in any N.C. community to celebrate a state budget that doesn’t provide for historic...    Read More

August 6, 2014


Giving credit for grants

The question of whether government ought to subsidize historic preservation or Hollywood filmmaking is distinguishable from the question of how government ought to go about delivering those subsidies...    Read More

by John Hood   |   August 6, 2014


The four tribes of big education

The mention of the phrase ‘public schools’ conjures up a vision of nurturing teachers and faithful laboring principals but it turns out ‘Big Education’ is a kingdom teeming with ‘Big Players...    Read More

August 5, 2014