NC Spin Articles

The $60M price for brilliance

Editorial by Charlotte Observer, June 4, 2014. In case you haven’t heard, Aldona Wos is brilliant. That’s what Gov. Pat McCrory says about North Carolina’s Health and Human Services secretary...    Read More

June 5, 2014





McCrory's moment has arrived

The people of North Carolina are about to find out if they have a governor with a mind and an agenda of his own or a weak and mostly ceremonial leader who is unwilling or unable to stand up to the...    Read More

by Chris Fitzsimon   |   June 4, 2014

Connaughton: Economy to cool slightly in 2014

by Steve Cranford, Charlotte Business Journal, June 3, 2014. The North Carolina economy should grow at an inflation-adjusted rate of 1.9 percent in 2014, down from 2.3 percent last year, according to...    Read More

June 4, 2014


To pay more, employ fewer

If Gov. Pat McCrory and the General Assembly enact a 2014-15 budget that eliminates some government positions in order to fund pay raises for other government employees, they’ll get criticized in...    Read More

by John Hood   |   June 4, 2014

The tenure trade-off

Editorial by Salisbury Post, June 1, 2014. We’ve entered the most difficult time of the school year for teachers — the time when lawmakers bat around ideas about how to pay them for educating our...    Read More

June 4, 2014