The agenda starting tomorrow
Regardless of what happens today, North Carolina’s greatest policy challenge is increasingly clear It’s one of the great conundrums of modern society: All around us, images of wealth, comfort... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Voter shaming works
Voter shaming” is new. Hypocrisy is as old as politics. The North Carolina Republican Party found a way to engage in both last week. A local voter received a card from the GOP with this warning... Read More
Why do we fail to teach so many black males to read?
The Wainstein report covers the who, what, when, where and how questions. It even covers the little why question. Why did UNC have paper classes? The answer: to maintain athletes’ eligibility. The... Read More
One way the party in power stays in power
How do all of those political ads show up on your TV screens and all those mailers arrive in your mailbox? Money, of course – and plenty of it. But cash gets into the hands of candidates, political... Read More
Analysis of early voting
We have the final totals for the vast majority of early votes coming in for North Carolina's general election; a small number of mail-in ballots will continue to trickle in, but the numbers point to a... Read More
Staying home is a vote, too
Editorial by Salisbury Post, November 3, 2014. “In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some die... Read More
Nearly 1.1 million cast votes in early voting
In-person early voting is over in North Carolina, and nearly 200,000 more ballots were cast compared to the last midterm election four years ago.State Board of Elections data show nearly 1.1 million... Read More
GOP smells 'conspiracy' after Charlotte O pulls Hagan conflict of interest story
Republicans accused North Carolina’s Charlotte Observer of engaging in a “conspiracy of silence” after it pulled its story about a state government memo calling for “legal review” of... Read More
Spending like its 1969
Government is far, far bigger than it used to be. Liberals generally cheer this development. Conservatives regret it. To understand the disagreement about this change, one must first understand the... Read More
Thom Tillis: Why I want your vote for Senate
by Thom Tillis, published in The Charlotte Observer, November 1, 2014. I was living in a trailer, working in a warehouse, and struggling to pay my bills. It was the late 1970s and millions of... Read More
