NC Spin Articles

NC GOP candidates: no, no, no

Posted by Jim Morrill on October 18, 2013 - Under the Dome Blog It looks like North Carolina’s Republican U.S. Senate primary will be fought on the right – and set up an even clearer contrast to... Read More

October 19, 2013

Wake and CMS school leaders complain about loss of teacher tenure

Leaders of North Carolina’s two largest public school systems charge that state legislators made a bad decision when they replaced tenure with a system that will have teachers competing for a small... Read More

October 19, 2013

Kaiser estimates 318,710 North Carolinians fall in 'coverage gap'

An estimated 318,710 low-income North Carolina residents will fall into a health insurance “coverage gap” and are likely to remain uninsured despite the federal health overhaul, according to a new... Read More

October 19, 2013

More Shocking News on Obamacare

Civitas Review Online - OCT 17 The latest estimates of Obamacare costs should be shocking to young people. The Heritage Foundation came up with estimates of what Obamacare premiums will cost compared... Read More

October 18, 2013

Fumbles: N.C. drops the ball during the shutdown

Editorial Published in Fayetteville Observer - October 17, 2013 With the federal shutdown finally resolved, life for most of those affected by it is returning to what passes for normal. Civil servants... Read More

October 18, 2013

NC should invest in water, the new oil

Hall-of-Fame announcer Jack Brickhouse once pointed out, “Any team can have a bad century,” with reference to his beloved Chicago Cubs. Unlike the performance of that hapless team, North Carolina... Read More

October 18, 2013

Cooper fundraising missive draws GOP fire

Posted by Rob Christensen on October 17, 2013 - News & Observer, Under the Dome Blog North Carolina’s Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper has sent out a fundraising missive following up on an... Read More

October 18, 2013

Fear

Old FDR was on to something in March 1933. Eighty years later, fear itself drives American politics – and maybe is driving us into serious economic troubles. Fear lies at the bottom of the mean... Read More

October 17, 2013

Blindness

Back in the throes of winter the State Auditor audited the North Carolina Medicaid Department and reported it had the highest administrative costs of just about any state Medicaid Department around... Read More

October 17, 2013

McCrory leads in disregard for the poor

If there were a contest to see which state administration has the most disregard for low-income families in 2013, the clear leader would be the McCrory Administration in North Carolina. Here is their... Read More

by Chris Fitzsimon | October 17, 2013