NC Spin Articles

McCrory's baffling pride

f it is true that the first step toward solving a problem is admitting that you have one, the scandals and mismanagement at the Department of Health and Human Services will not be ending any time soon...    Read More

by Chris Fitzsimon   |   October 11, 2013

DHHS needs to open up

Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, October 11, 2013. If Aldona Wos wants to hide what she’s doing at work from public view, she should quit her state job and go to work for a private company. Wos...    Read More

October 11, 2013

Debt Limits

Well, this is just great.  Boehner is going to ask Republicans to raise the debt limit.  Fantastic. This is the federal equivalent of using a new credit card to pay the bill for the existing credit...    Read More

October 11, 2013


Political Grudges Are Nothing New

Politics can be a brutal, bruising enterprise. If you said that you found the current political climate in Raleigh and Washington to be frustrating, dispiriting, and often juvenile, I’d second that...    Read More

by John Hood   |   October 11, 2013

Doctor my eyes

So all the DHHS scandals are based on a report that was doctored to mislead legislators and taxpayers.  The $87,000 salaries for young campaign aides, lucrative contracts for political allies...    Read More

October 10, 2013

A culture of deceit

On thing is clear. Pat McCrory came to Raleigh with an agenda for Medicaid and he wasn’t about to let pesky facts get in his way. He never has. He found a partisan ideologue to run the Department of...    Read More

October 10, 2013



Is NC Missing its Federal Paycheck?

When we discuss the NC state budget, many times we focus solely on the General Fund and tax revenue.  This is not the whole picture and leaves out very pertinent information.  North Carolina...    Read More

October 10, 2013

More conservative, less Republican

The conservative project has two main parts: first, winning the argument, and, second, winning elections. The first is a job for what we call the conservative movement, meaning everything from...    Read More

October 10, 2013


New trade bill would be disastrous to NC

Job growth in North Carolina is going in the wrong direction. The most recent government data revealed a surprising increase in the state’s unemployment rate – now the third-highest unemployment...    Read More

October 10, 2013