NC Spin Articles

Time to curb basketball's 'one and done' trend

Editorial by News and Observer, April 7, 2014. Today, there’s a new national champion in NCAA men’s basketball, but in the afterglow will come again the question: Isn’t it time to be done with...    Read More

April 8, 2014

A more accurate portrait of NC state debt

Most of us have jobs, and with those jobs come certain benefits, most noticeably health care and retirement benefits. The same is true for state employees. Public school teachers, judges, elected...    Read More

April 8, 2014

Trying to drive the new road-building highway

I'm told that one of the wise, old political operatives in the state recently remarked that do-nothing politicians in today's highly partisan environment move down a safer path than those who attempt...    Read More

April 8, 2014


Duke Energy's trust gap

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, April 7, 2014. It should come as no surprise that people here don’t trust Duke Energy’s planned experiment on local trees with a “growth regulator.” This...    Read More

April 7, 2014

Voting registration deadline is Friday

Those wishing to cast a ballot in May’s primary election must register to vote by Friday – and this year the deadline is final. Since 2008, North Carolinians who missed the deadline got a second...    Read More

April 7, 2014

A plan to come together as a nation

While I was attending the Conservative Leadership Conference in Raleigh, I had the privilege of hearing Matt Kibbe, President of Freedom Works. His message was simple yet profound. His six points...    Read More

April 7, 2014


FCC should let markets work

In February, Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler declared that the North Carolina General Assembly had no authority to determine telecommunications policy in North Carolina. Well, okay...    Read More

by John Hood   |   April 7, 2014

It's too early to be running for governor

Editorial by Burlington Times-News, April 4, 2014. Stop running for office already. No, we’re not talking about those campaigning right this minute for elected offices that will be in play starting...    Read More

April 6, 2014



Road funding?

As state transportation officials take up the knotty issue of how to pay for roads in the future, they better first understand the political thicket in which state legislators have left them. Members...    Read More

April 6, 2014