NC Spin Articles

Should NC subsidize solar industry? No

Trains are notoriously hard to slow down – even when we need them to. North Carolina’s solar subsidies, some of the most generous in the nation, are sort of like a runaway train that just keeps...    Read More

July 31, 2014


Time to rethink NC elections

Editorial by Charlotte Observer, July 30, 2014. The recent Republican U.S. Senate primary in Mississippi should spur creative thinking about North Carolina’s election system. Other states offer...    Read More

July 31, 2014


The deal apparently is a deal

RALEIGH, N.C. — Good morning and welcome to Today @NCCapitol for Thursday, July 31. Here's what's going on at the legislature and around state government today. THE BUDGET: Formal drafts of the...    Read More

July 31, 2014

NC could have used Erskine Bowles as governor

What North Carolina needed during the past 18 months was Erskine Bowles sitting in the governor’s chair. Bowles, a Charlotte investment banker, has precisely what has been sorely lacking in Raleigh...    Read More

July 31, 2014

Power plants sale to give boon to the area

Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, July 20, 2014. Rocky Mount residents ought to be breathing a collective sigh of relief after news broke earlier this week of a deal between Duke Energy and the N.C...    Read More

July 31, 2014


Executions no place for trial and error

Whether or not the government should execute people for particularly heinous crimes has always posed murky moral, ethical and legal questions. But whether people agree or disagree on the subject, it...    Read More

July 29, 2014


Truth and justice

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 28, 2014. A TV ad in Tennessee targets three justices on the state’s highest court. A narrator says: “28 states fought against Obamacare. But Tennessee...    Read More

July 29, 2014