NC Spin Articles


Redistricting Ruling No Surprise

No one should have been surprised that three Superior Court Judges upheld the congressional and legislative districts drawn in 2011. The unanimous ruling stated that the NAACP, a former legislator and...    Read More

July 8, 2013

Bad process, bad bill

Editorial in the Durham Herald-Sun, Thursday, July 4, 2013 One state government leader, reflecting on the State Senate’s surprise attack on abortion rights this week, summed it up perfectly in our...    Read More

July 8, 2013



To Build a Better Brand for Business

Liberal politicians, left-wing activists, and political commentators have spent months prodding, baiting, and criticizing new Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-led state legislature...    Read More

by John Hood   |   July 8, 2013

The Real Progressives in Raleigh

In Raleigh, the conservatives are confidently progressive and the progressives are desperately conservative. The modern-day conservatives who inhabit the General Assembly, the executive branch, and...    Read More

by John Hood   |   July 2, 2013


Senate leaders unveiled their latest version of a massive tax cut for the wealthy Monday, the same day federal emergency unemployment benefits were cut off to 70,000 laid off workers simply because...    Read More

by Chris Fitzsimon   |   July 2, 2013

So what’s the problem with Common Core?

by Becki Gray So what’s the problem with Common Core?  Well, we don’t know.  Don’t know how it will work, don’t know how well it will work and don’t know how much it will cost. The State...    Read More

June 28, 2013

Access to power sale this weekend

Legislative leaders and officials from the McCrory Administration are huddled in the backrooms of the Legislative Building these days working out the final details of a package of massive tax breaks...    Read More

by Chris Fitzsimon   |   June 26, 2013