NC Spin Articles



Remote medicine tests doctor licensing rules

Demand for doctors – whether in person or via a computer screen – is expected to surge as millions more Americans become insured under the Affordable Care Act. About 10 million people already rely...    Read More

March 8, 2014


Dark money comes to light

Call it a ray of light, albeit a seemingly accidental one, into the world of dark money and policy making. It was the spring of 2013, and lawmakers were busy drafting more than 1,700 bills, including...    Read More

March 8, 2014




Duke CEO: Customers should pay ash pond costs

Duke Energy expects its 3.2 million North Carolina customers to pay the costs of closing its ash ponds, CEO Lynn Good said Friday. Duke is preparing a response to Gov. Pat McCrory’s request last...    Read More

March 8, 2014

Mountain man Martin Nesbitt, gone too fast

When I started covering the North Carolina General Assembly for the Greensboro Daily News in March of 1977, I noticed state Rep. Mary Nesbitt, D-Buncombe, right away.  Might have been because I have...    Read More

March 7, 2014



Piling on with UNC? No

Said the True Blue alum of UNC-Chapel Hill: “No one cares about the so-called scandals any more. People are tired of it. Why do you keep writing about it?” He spoke, of course, of the show that at...    Read More

March 7, 2014