NC Spin Articles


A troubling first for N.C.’s environment

Editorial by Charlotte Observer, September 25, 2013. If you’re doing something no one else in the country is doing, there’s a good chance you’re either radically innovative or recklessly...    Read More

September 26, 2013

GOP alleges irregularities with Progress NC

The state Republican Party Tuesday asked the Secretary of State Elaine Marshall to investigate a Democratic group's fund-raising practices. The state GOP is questioning whether Progress NC, a...    Read More

September 25, 2013


Time for a Bi -State Commission

I recently attended a meeting with the leadership of the Port of Virginia as a member of the Northeast Commission. The Northeast Commission is a state funded organization tasked to do economic...    Read More

September 25, 2013

Just anybody

by Thomas Mills, Politics NC, September 24, 2013. Well, one thing about the Department of Health and Human Services is certain: If it wasn’t really broken before Aldona Wos showed up on the scene...    Read More

September 25, 2013

Medicaid glitches must be resolved – now

Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, September 24, 2013. For much of the summer, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services has been in a political crosshairs, with attention focused on high...    Read More

September 25, 2013


Teenage alcohol abuse data reveal scary story

Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, September 20, 2013. The numbers relating to binge-drinking high school students are horrifying. Throw in the fact that the numbers might not even be the whole...    Read More

September 25, 2013


McCrory slow to anger over DHHS mess

Editorial by News and Observer, September 25, 2013. Pat McCrory said he was going to run North Carolina’s state government like a business, but it’s proving to be a funny business. Consider the...    Read More

September 25, 2013


The Case for Bending the Curve

Although it may not seem obvious at first, there is a common denominator between two separate dramas playing out in Washington and Raleigh right now. Nationally, the top story in domestic policy is...    Read More

by John Hood   |   September 25, 2013