NC Spin Articles


North Carolina's toxic future

A dystopian nightmare is unfolding in North Carolina. It is what the whole country would look like if you were to marry David Koch to Ted Cruz, with a prenup by ALEC, the outside agitator also known...    Read More

March 6, 2014

Duke seems to have friends in high places

Editorial by Charlotte Observer, March 3, 2014. State regulators announced Monday that they were citing Duke Energy for not having certain permits the law requires. State regulators did not announce...    Read More

March 6, 2014


Our money's worth?

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 5, 2014. Trust us, state officials say, a High Point consultant earned every penny of the $310,000 in tax money he made last year for less than 11 months...    Read More

March 6, 2014

Numbers

Three eye-catching and eye-popping numbers jumped out of the paper lately – numbers that truly tell a story.   990. That’s how many dollars an hour the latest expert is being paid to give us the...    Read More

March 5, 2014

What UNC's Poverty Center was hiding

A public records request filed by the Civitas Institute confirms that the UNC Poverty Center continues to use publicly funded resources for blatantly political activities in ways that are...    Read More

March 5, 2014


Change the way NC awards software contracts

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, March 3, 2014. Department of Motor Vehicles computers that handle inspection reports aren't working correctly. The system is delaying or losing tens of thousands of...    Read More

March 5, 2014

Are the Democrats getting too liberal?

The recent polarization of American politics has been far more obvious on the right than the left. The emergence of the tea party movement and its influence in Congress has brought to the fore...    Read More

March 5, 2014