NC Spin Articles


Funding the bridge over troubled waters

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, September 17, 2013. Old-time scam artists who "sold" the Brooklyn Bridge would have a hard time plying their trade these days. That's especially true here in North...    Read More

September 17, 2013



Paulson: More crises to come

On the five-year anniversary of the U.S. financial meltdown, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson said on Sunday the country can count on more financial crises to come, but hopefully none the size...    Read More

September 16, 2013

Heckuva job

At the end of his first term, George Bush was asked what he would have done differently. He couldn’t think of one thing. Everything was lovely despite wars without end, 9/11, exploding deficits and...    Read More

September 16, 2013

On a disappointing road

Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, September 15, 2013. Apparently, the definition of “local input” is open for rather broad interpretation when it comes to how the North Carolina Department of...    Read More

September 16, 2013


Campus 'cap' needs better explanation

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, September 15, 2013. Here are some important things to bear in mind as the UNC System and the rest of us take a few months to think through a proposal to raise the...    Read More

September 16, 2013

Lack of competition in Obamacare

North Carolina consumers could be the biggest losers after one of three insurance carriers that applied to participate in the Obamacare federal exchange announced its decision on Thursday to withdraw...    Read More

September 16, 2013

Jesse Helms Averts a Primary

Thirty years ago this month, it looked like the North Carolina Republican Party might have a bruising primary for the nomination to replace Gov. Jim Hunt, who was nearing the end of his second term...    Read More

by John Hood   |   September 16, 2013


Key causes of health care mess

John Steele Gordon shares with Barron’s readers some of the historical background for the current American health care predicament. … [O]nce policies and programs start, they foster...    Read More

September 16, 2013