NC Spin Articles

Spread out to speed up

Traffic jams happen when too many cars try to traverse too little roadway. Thus there are two main ways to reduce the number of traffic jams. One is to reduce the number of cars trying to travel the...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 16, 2013

The battle over UNC in 2014

One of the more interesting political battles in 2014 might come over state funding for the university system and calls for more tuition hikes to replace the deep budget cuts made in the last three...    Read More

by Chris Fitzsimon   |   December 15, 2013

Jockeying begins

The next elections in North Carolina may be months away, but that doesn’t mean that the combatants haven’t been preparing for a while now. While most people have seen or will see those step inside...    Read More

December 15, 2013


Labor market on the mend

North Carolina’s economy isn’t behaving the way it was supposed to. According to liberal critics of Gov. Pat McCrory and the General Assembly, the state should be losing its attraction as a place...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 15, 2013

DHHS debacles need fixing, not praise

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, December 14, 2013. We appreciate Gov. Pat McCrory's loyalty to his top administrators. It's likely that Aldona Wos, the state secretary of health and human services...    Read More

December 15, 2013

Small colleges in peril

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 15, 2013. Greensboro College had a lot to celebrate last week. After five years of financial struggle — and two years on probation with its accrediting...    Read More

December 15, 2013


Raise minimum wage? It's iffy

It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another – it’s one damn thing over and over.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay Liberals’ love of recycling extends to their ideas, one of which...    Read More

December 15, 2013

The silly season in NC politics

This is the silly season in politics and government. The legislature is not coming back until May, the campaign season is not yet in full bloom, and Gov. Pat McCrory is going across the state trying...    Read More

December 15, 2013

Phones in flight: unfriendly skies

Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, December 10, 2013. Commercial airlines have been the last refuge from the ubiquity of cellphone chatter and text messages that just can’t wait. Call us Luddites...    Read More

December 14, 2013


Public Education?

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 14, 2013. The strongest arguments against the state’s new school voucher program aren’t legal ones. The lawsuit filed this week by the president of...    Read More

December 14, 2013