Dodging the bullet in the Boeing deal
In Greensboro’s recent negotiations to try to bribe lure Boeing to NC, it has been disclosed they offered free land, site prep work at no charge and additional rail access. Where would the money... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Another maddening misstatement by the governor
Governor Pat McCrory is starting 2014 the way he spent much of 2013—by apparently making up facts to defend his unpopular policies. WRAL-TV reports that McCrory told Tom Campbell of NC SPIN this... Read More
UNC scandal not going away anytime soon
The powers-that-be at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill decided some time ago that the slow drip of bad news from their scandal-ridden athletics department was preferable to a full public... Read More
New agreement will ease community college transfers to state universities
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, January 11, 2014. Community college students in North Carolina have long had the option of transferring to a four-year university, but the reality is a lot more... Read More
Family farms still rule
Regarding the Dec. 28 article “Farm, animal-rights interests square off over legislation”: Contrary to assumptions, North Carolina farms are predominantly family operated, and the agricultural... Read More
Snow geese
The surprise wasn’t Governor McCrory’s Cabinet Secretaries ripping into the liberals over at the Southern Environmental Law Center, calling them ‘do-gooders sitting in ivory towers in air... Read More
NC SPIN's Tom Campbell Interviews Governor Pat McCrory
Welcome to this special edition of NC SPIN. Our old friend Bill Friday had a longstanding tradition of conducting a conversation with the sitting Governor of our State as one year ended and another... Read More
The lasting impression on DHHS
One of the most interesting comments about this week’s announcement that Ricky Diaz was leaving his post as communications director of the scandal-plagued N.C. Department of Health and Human... Read More
How the college bubble will pop
The American political class has long held that higher education is vital to individual and national success. The Obama administration has dubbed college "the ticket to the middle class," and... Read More
NC Commerce department shakeup too much too soon
Editorial by News and Observer, January 10, 2014. Even some legislators who backed the idea of forming a public-private nonprofit to lead North Carolina’s economic development efforts aren’t sure... Read More
