NC Spin Articles


Teachers can spend their summer scratching off

I  have a big idea for North Carolina Republicans. They want to give teachers a raise. They want to give them a raise because they know it’s laughable to suggest a starting statewide base salary of...    Read More

June 18, 2014

Start with the right measures

Fiscal conservatives think government is too large, costs too much, and tries to do too much. Fiscal liberals think government is too small, spends too little, and doesn’t try to do enough. This is...    Read More

by John Hood   |   June 18, 2014


Tales of corruption

Republicans made great hay in 2010 and 2012 over then-ongoing investigations of Democratic politicians, like John Edwards, Mike Easley and appointees of Bev Perdue. Suddenly the shoe is on the other...    Read More

June 17, 2014

Critical to find common ground on Common Core

State lawmakers are quickly advancing legislation during the current legislative session to repeal North Carolina’s previous adoption of the Common Core Standards in education. Unfortunately, the...    Read More

June 17, 2014

Medical school critical

Since the early 1970s, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and Vidant Medical Center (formerly Pitt County Memorial Hospital) have sustained a unique relationship that is...    Read More

June 17, 2014


Coal ash bill improves clean-up plan

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, June 16, 2014. The coal-ash train in Raleigh is moving again, and in the right direction. A Senate bill, which had its first committee hearing on Monday, proposes a...    Read More

June 17, 2014