NC Spin Articles

Tea party: Insane, on point

Even many Republicans agree that they lost the battle over the shutdown and the debt ceiling. The tea party walked the country to the edge of economic ruin and their party to the edge of political...    Read More

October 24, 2013


Next up after website glitches: The lawsuits

If the Obamacare enrollment website seems like a tangled mess, just wait for the lawsuits. The potential for a morass of litigation over who’s responsible for the problems that have plagued the...    Read More

October 23, 2013


Restoring power to the people

The folks at the North Carolina Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform (of which NC Policy Watch is a member) are on a tour of the state these days, renewing their call for a long overdue...    Read More

by Chris Fitzsimon   |   October 23, 2013

GOP reaches out to African-American voters

The Republican National Committee is intensifying its outreach efforts to African-American voters in North Carolina. The RNC opened an “engagement office” in Charlotte on Monday in what state GOP...    Read More

October 23, 2013

Keep Your Mistakes to Yourself

We all make mistakes. We err as individuals and as members of groups. All businesses commit errors. All churches, charities, and voluntary associations stumble. All governments screw up. Of course...    Read More

by John Hood   |   October 23, 2013


Tillis campaign bolstered by his own $250k

Speaker of the House Thom Tillis? Not as popular with campaign donors as the $1 million he said he'd raise might lead you to believe. The Associated Press moved this a little while ago: Click here...    Read More

October 23, 2013

DHHS head of environmental health resigns

Layton Long, Jr., head of environmental health at the state Department of Health and Human Services, resigned Monday. His resignation is effective in 30 days. Long has worked at the state Department...    Read More

October 22, 2013

State Wants Court To Toss Voter ID Suits

The state is asking a federal court to dismiss two lawsuits — one filed by the North Carolina NAACP and one filed by the League of Women Voters of N.C. — challenging the new law requiring voters...    Read More

October 22, 2013


Error Message

For a year we’ve heard how the digital geniuses in the Obama campaign demolished Mitt Romney. Now they can’t make the website work for the biggest thing in his administration? This might say...    Read More

October 22, 2013