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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
UNC Chapel Hill men’s basketball coach Roy Williams and other university officials strongly disputed a report by whistleblower Mary Willingham this week that says more than half of the academically... Read More
In a previous column, I noted that the Left’s crusade against conservative ideas and politicians in North Carolina faces an implacable foe: the time-space continuum. Leftist predictions that... Read More
