NC Spin Articles

Nine key questions: Will Obamacare survive

How did it go? Unavoidably, that will be the big question come Tuesday. But there will be much more to it than that. A 180-Day Open Enrollment––Not a One-Day Open Enrollment What happens on the...    Read More

October 1, 2013

McCrory, Media and Mayhem behind closed doors

Last week the Governor invited select radio and television news directors to a closed door (no camera) session where he sought to enlist their support in “positive news” about state government...    Read More

October 1, 2013

Back to the future with health insurance

I believe the origins of U.S. health insurance stem from depression era efforts to help hospitals in our growing urban areas remain open to care for those in need - in essence a pre-paid...    Read More

October 1, 2013




Feds right on voter suppression lawsuit

Editorial by Charlotte Observer, October 1, 2013. In a lawsuit Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder said what many in North Carolina, including this editorial board, have already said: That a sweeping...    Read More

October 1, 2013


Time to put an end to corporate welfare

Welfare … a word that evokes many emotions. The Republicans rail against welfare for the poor, saying that it creates dependency on the government. To that end, the U.S. House passed a bill cutting...    Read More

September 30, 2013

Shutdown politics

The shutdown showdown shows how much worse politics is today than in the 1990s. And it was bad then. Back then, Newt Gingrich shut down the government because…well, nobody can remember why. Except...    Read More

September 30, 2013

Race to the bottom

John Hood recently wrote that liberals dismiss Republican’s tax cuts and deregulation as economic tools because they don’t believe in the relationship between taxes, regulation and economic...    Read More

September 30, 2013


Mainstream vs. conservative Republicans

I was in a political discussion when a conservative close to me said “What does it matter what we do? I thought about it for a minute and realized there was a great deal of truth in that simple yet...    Read More

September 30, 2013