NC Spin Articles


Undermining democracy

Yesterday, a right-wing evangelical group reported potential election fraud in a Mecklenburg state house district and demanded the Rachel Hunt, the Democratic victor in the election, not be seated...    Read More

January 10, 2019





Get ready for smaller districts

The average public-school district in the United States enrolls about 3,700 students, according to a recent Governing magazine analysis. In North Carolina, the average school district enrolls more...    Read More

by John Hood   |   January 7, 2019



What to do about Silent Sam?

The saga of Silent Sam will continue into 2019.  Last year ended with a modest truce. A group of faculty and teaching assistants pulled back a threat to withhold student grades if the Confederate...    Read More

January 3, 2019



It doesn't add up

Almost every politician in Washington supported the Criminal Justice Reform Bill – so what are the odds all those politicians, this time, got it right? According to the newspaper 53,000 prisoners...    Read More

January 2, 2019