NC Spin Articles

Women key to Senate race

It took North Carolina voters a very long time to elect a woman to the U.S. Senate, and when they finally did, it required remarkable circumstances – a woman with national stature, pushed by a...    Read More

July 6, 2014

NC Medicaid office in disarray

On May 14, Gov. Pat McCrory rolled out his proposed state budget, a spending blueprint supported in part by an unusual scheme designed to snag an extra $60 million from federal taxpayers. The plan was...    Read More

July 6, 2014

A lit stick of dynamite

There’s a lit stick of dynamite – and one unanswered question – being blithely passed from hand to hand in the backrooms of Raleigh: Who will the State Senators and Representatives make pay to...    Read More

July 5, 2014



The peace fallout

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 5, 2014. The term “peace dividend” dates back to the end of the Cold War and suggests that nations will get an economic boost if they decrease spending on...    Read More

July 5, 2014





Medicaid: Is 'broken' a bad rap?

It was a quick sound bite, but it has resounded through state politics. “We have a broken Medicaid system that is not ready to go,” Gov. Pat McCrory told a group of business leaders about a month...    Read More

July 5, 2014


Not Joshing around

I know that people in the Governor’s Office read this blog. So please pass this message on to Governor McCrory: Josh Ellis needs some time off.   Josh, the Governor’s communications director...    Read More

July 4, 2014