NC Spin Articles

Adults in the House

Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, June 11, 2014. Republican lawmakers in the state House and Senate have substantially different ideas about how education and Medicaid should be funded. Either...    Read More

June 12, 2014

Are Moral Mondays fizzling out?

by Jim Tynen, Civitas Review Online, June 11, 2014. This week, Moral Monday took an interesting turn; instead of ending in arrests, the evening ended with a civil discussion and an eerie march through...    Read More

June 12, 2014

Blowing up the status quo in education

Chronic failures in the education system have alternately been blamed on students, parents, administrators, teachers, assessment (testing) and the curriculum. One of my favorite superintendents used...    Read More

June 12, 2014


Political split outgrows the voting booth

Political polarization in America has broken out of the voting booth. A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds Americans are divided by ideology and partisanship not only when they cast ballots...    Read More

June 12, 2014


Separate Medicaid agency may be no bargain

The state Senate’s proposed budget would carve Medicaid out of the Department of Health and Human Services in hopes of making it a more accountable, standalone agency with budget stability. But in...    Read More

June 12, 2014




Senator Berger is wrong on teacher assistants

Editorial by News and Observer, June 11, 2014. Phil Berger knows better. A small-town lawyer by trade, the Republican president pro tem of the state Senate deals every day in his profession with...    Read More

June 11, 2014