NC Spin Articles

Looming N.C. deficit among nation's largest

North Carolina will face one of the largest state deficits in the country next year, according to a new report. The National Conference of State Legislatures surveyed 35 states to get a picture of...    Read More

August 21, 2013




McCrory Calls Out Legislators Using Facebook

Gov. Pat McCrory is using Facebook to call on lawmakers to sustain two vetoes he issued earlier this month. "Contact your representative, Julia Howard @ 919-733-5904 who represents Davie and Forsyth...    Read More

August 21, 2013





When N.C. justices were impeached

Howard E. Covington Jr. dangles an intriguing historical footnote in his excellent new biography of Greensboro’s Henry Frye. (I’ll write about the book for a future Sunday Ideas section.) The...    Read More

August 21, 2013

Fund, don't just praise community colleges

I was fortunate enough to be a community college president for 15 years under three governors. I can’t say how many times I heard how valuable we were to the economic well-being of our state. The...    Read More

August 21, 2013