Cooper budget uses excessive debt
American states and localities are, on the whole, administered more responsibly than the federal government is. Their superiority has nothing to do with the qualities of the individuals involved... Read More
NC Spin Articles
In migration plays large role in NC's rising educational attainment
When we focus on educational attainment, we generally focus on prime working-age adults, defined here as adults between the ages of 25 and 64. There were 5.4 million prime working-age adults in North... Read More
College admissions scandal hits Wake Forest
As my colleague, Terry Stoops relayed yesterday, the national “pay for admission” scandal at some of the country’s elite universities that has shocked and appalled so many of us appears to... Read More
Governor Cooper's extremely moderate budget proposal
Gov. Roy Cooper is an enormously skilled politician with a top-flight staff and many years of experience in the state policy wars, so it probably makes some sense to give him the benefit of the doubt... Read More
Parlaying education for pay into rich connections with societal control
The recent revelation of a long buried scandal for the children from privilege in buying admissions to prestigious institutions based on questionable grades, fixing standardized test scores... Read More
Don't let the Democratic Party leave me
I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, it left me.” This declaration is not new. I heard it over and over again back in the early 1980s when old-line conservative Democrats, still smarting from... Read More
Are there "best" ways for using debt?
by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, March 13, 2019. Two news items motivated me to write this week’s column about debt. One is a debate in the North Carolina General Assembly over... Read More
Conservatives should favor redistricting reform
In the twilight of his political career, Ronald Reagan made the media rounds to discuss his administration, legacy, and unfinished business. During several of these interviews, Reagan went out of his... Read More
Tillis changes his mind and votes for the Presidential emergency
by Tom Campbell, producer and moderator of NC SPIN, March 14, 2019. North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis had said, on several occasions, that he would for against the emergency declared by President... Read More
CORRECTION
NC SPIN published a story titled "Appeals court rules legislature can change retiree health plan terms" and attributed authorship of that piece to Becki Gray. The story was actually authored by Dan... Read More
