Wobble But Don’t Fall
And so it begins. After a weekend of online chatter, media spin, and political fulminations, there can be no doubt that the end of the 2013 legislative session was, in truth, the start of the... Read More
NC SPIN Posts by John Hood
Wobble But Don't Fall
And so it begins.??After a weekend of online chatter, media spin, and political fulminations, there can be no doubt that the end of the 2013 legislative session was, in truth, the start of the... Read More
Tax Reform Part of Broader Plan
A few weeks ago, I was interviewing one of North Carolina's senior Democratic statesmen for my upcoming biography of former Gov. Jim Martin. Not surprisingly, the interview occasionally veered from... Read More
Governors ranked by economic growth
In researching my upcoming biography of former North Carolina Gov. Jim Martin, I’ve been conducting personal interviews, rooting through boxes of archival material, and collecting press coverage of... Read More
Job Creation Rises in Carolina
Where are the jobs? Since Barack Obama took office in 2009 promising to end and reverse the effects of the Great Recession, Republican politicians and conservative critics have relentlessly pointed... Read More
Careful About Legitimacy Claims
Is the state government of North Carolina illegitimate? Based on the volume of emails and Facebook messages I’ve received lately, liberal politicians and organizations are shopping the idea that the... Read More
To Build a Better Brand for Business
Liberal politicians, left-wing activists, and political commentators have spent months prodding, baiting, and criticizing new Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-led state legislature... Read More
The Real Progressives in Raleigh
In Raleigh, the conservatives are confidently progressive and the progressives are desperately conservative. The modern-day conservatives who inhabit the General Assembly, the executive branch, and... Read More
Big Government Slams Small Firms
Regulatory policy is about striking a proper balance. Virtually no one disagrees with the propriety of government designing, promulgating, and enforcing regulation. When health, safety, and property... Read More
Restore Real Judicial Elections
Liberal groups in and outside the state seem to be spending sleepless nights worried about the fate of judicial-election changes North Carolina adopted in 2002. The General Assembly should save our... Read More
