NC Spin Articles


Pension fund fees

In North Carolina political circles, it is no secret that one of the largest employee groups in the state is coming after State Treasurer Janet Cowell. The State Employees Association of North...    Read More

March 7, 2014

Par for the course

If North Carolina Democrats were to gain some legislative seats this year, state and national pundits would probably spill gobs of ink — or at least fill gobs of pixels — with elaborate...    Read More

by John Hood   |   March 7, 2014


DMV Snafus join long list of computer ills

Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, March 5, 2014. It’s enough to make you want to reboot state government – literally. Employees in North Carolina government departments have faced an avalanche of...    Read More

March 6, 2014

New SAT: Essay portion to be optional

Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions. Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away with some...    Read More

March 6, 2014



Governor Morehead shaped modern North Carolina

by Governor James G. Martin, published in Greensboro News-Record, March 2, 2014. A few weeks ago in this space, my friend Henry Isaacson and I wrote about how big ideas have attractive merit. It was...    Read More

March 6, 2014

Thinking head

When every politician in Washington sounds like a robot reciting a predictable party line, Rand Paul sounds like a man who actually thinks. Sometimes he sounds sounds nutty and sometimes he makes...    Read More

March 6, 2014

Running in circles

These days just about every politician in Raleigh is saying (as often as he can) how he wants to spend more money on schools and give teachers raises.    But what if the root of the problem with...    Read More

March 6, 2014