by Sara Ganim, CNN, January 19, 2014. The death threats, Mary Willingham expected. More shocking is that the University of North Carolina is now disavowing her research as a whistle-blower... Read More
North Carolina is an interesting place these days, and I mean that in the worst possible way. It’s a southern state, but one with a major technology complex, growing foreign investment, and what... Read More
by Jim Morrill, Charlotte Observer, published in Lake Wylie Pilot, January 9, 2014. Journalist Bill Moyers on Thursday defended his documentary about North Carolina politics after one critic called it... Read More
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
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
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
