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
NC Spin Articles
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
The walkout has already begun
Because one teacher decides to work Monday, it does not make the decision of another teacher to “walk out” a wrong or bad decision. Most teachers will be reluctant to walk-out, sick-out, or... Read More
Three reasons Mel Watt's nomination was blocked in the Senate
by Adam O'Daniel, Charlotte Business Journal, November 1, 2013. U.S. Rep. Mel Watt's bid to become the next director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency was dealt a major blow Thursday when... Read More
Governor McCrory names Medicaid reform advisory group
Press release from Governor Pat McCrory, November 1, 2013. Governor Pat McCrory has named three North Carolina health care leaders to the state’s newly formed Medicaid Reform Advisory Group. The... Read More
Driving Republicans crazy
Whatever else it does, Obamacare drives Republicans into a frenzy of hype, hypocrisy, irrationality and overreaction. Exhibit A: Republicans in Congress are outraged that website glitches prevent... Read More
6 sign up for healthcare insurance the first day
CBS News reports on the incredibly low number of people who actually successfully signed up for health insurance through the complete failure commonly referred to as the Obamacare exchanges. SCOTT... Read More
Beth Wood: "I never said Medicaid was broken"
from an interview with the News and Observer editorial board, posted November 1, 2013. State Auditor Beth Wood met with the editorial board and some newsroom folks this week to talk about her office... Read More
Is college worth it? Bill Bennett says "no"
Bill Bennett, the former Triangle resident and U.S. secretary of education, has long liked to tweak the people who run America’s colleges and universities. “Sure I do. I enjoy it. They deserve it... Read More
Don’t throw the tea party overboard
In the wake of the government shutdown and near default, a Beltway consensus has emerged: The GOP lost, the tea party movement is to blame and, therefore, the former must abandon the latter or risk... Read More
