Six Essential Steps to Fix Medicaid
The Department of Health and Human Services clearly needs triage. While it serves no valuable purpose to list the litany of reasons why the department, especially our Medicaid program, is in crisis we... Read More
My Spin by Tom Campbell
Get ready for the GOP donnybrook
As predicted last week on NC SPIN, Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger announced he would not be a candidate in the May 2014 primary for the U.S. Senate. His decision was both political and pragmatic... Read More
How long before you own the problem?
Last weekend Governor Pat McCrory appeared on the statewide television talk show NC SPIN to discuss his first eight months in office. Throughout that interview he blamed many of the state’s current... Read More
15 years, four governors and change
NC SPIN is approaching a milestone, our 15th year of broadcasting balanced debate for the Old North State. I’ll never forget that first show. We were all wondering if we would have enough to talk... Read More
Running out of gas with two critical transportation questions
100,000 new residents call North Carolina home each year. From 1990 to 2010, our population grew by 44 percent and vehicle travel increased 63 percent. 54 percent of our major urban highways are... Read More
Belhaven hospital closing
Vidant Health Systems, in Greenville, announced this week that they were closing their Pungo hospital in Belhaven. 90 or more jobs will be lost and patients in the region will be without hospital... Read More
No longer the smartest kids
Not too many years ago American schools were the best in the world and our kids were the smartest. But that’s not true today. A new book, The Smartest kids in the world, and how they got that way... Read More
Repeal Obamacare? Then what?
Even its most ardent supporters agree The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is flawed, so there is no surprise there is a growing movement to repeal this act most believe won’t cure our healthcare... Read More
Republicans and Democrats agree on this
Amidst all the charges back and forth regarding election laws of our state there is one thing on which both Democrats and Republicans obviously agree: They want to make it as difficult as possible for... Read More
Do Mainstream Republicans Have the Courage to Take Back their Party?
Republican Congressman Robert Pittenger, home for the summer recess, has been holding Town Hall Meetings in his district. In a recent one, a Tea Partier rose to ask Pittenger what he described as an... Read More
