NC Spin Articles

The endless campaign becomes a reality in NC

Republican Pat McCrory is appearing in TV ads talking about his accomplishments as governor. His likely opponent, Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper, is moving around the state giving speeches...    Read More

November 4, 2013

Tillis is toast

by James Protzman, Blue NC, November 3, 2013. After Peter Principling his way to fame and fortune, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis has taken to believing his own press. He's under the...    Read More

November 4, 2013

Axelrod hammered on 'you can keep it'

Former White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod had no allies on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday when he was asked repeatedly by a roundtable of journalists and pundits why the president told Americans...    Read More

November 4, 2013




Time to close NC’s reading gap

Editorial by News and Observer, November 2, 2013. Occasionally there’s a story about a prominent college athlete who is unable to read or who can read only at an early elementary school level. The...    Read More

November 4, 2013


The DHHS sitcom

How many Department of Health and Human Services employees does it take to screw in a light bulb? We don’t know but it will take 19 to run their new marketing and public relations shops. I wonder...    Read More

November 3, 2013

Sluggish economy is not political

The economic recovery from the Great Recession is painfully sluggish — and it’s not all Barack Obama’s fault. Nor can the fault be laid solely at the feet of George W. Bush, or North Carolina...    Read More

by John Hood   |   November 3, 2013

The GOP "Keep your plan" movement

With the shutdown beginning to fade from view, Obamacare opponents, learning from past battles, are revising their tactics and turning their focus to a push to let people keep their current health...    Read More

November 3, 2013


Is NC a year away from a GOP reckoning?

The calendar has turned to November and the event that many North Carolina Democrats feel can’t come quickly enough is officially a year away – Election Day 2014. Democratic turnout tends to surge...    Read More

November 3, 2013