NC Spin Articles


Rabon's bill will damage state's courts

Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, December 31, 2017. If Bill Rabon didn’t get coal in his Christmas stocking, then Santa must not have been paying attention. The state senator from Southport has...    Read More

January 4, 2018

For Cooper, challenges follow early success

Gov. Roy Cooper has finished his first year in office — a year full of the fireworks that are common in a divided state government. Cooper and Republican legislative leaders have sparred on TV, in...    Read More

January 4, 2018



Fighting in 2017: A wrap up

2017 – a year of fights.  Because some things are worth fighting for and sometimes it’s just politics. General Assembly v. Governor Cooper: even before he was elected, the Democrat Governor...    Read More

by Becki Gray   |   December 29, 2017

Does Cooper favor a big tax hike?

Does Gov. Roy Cooper believe that North Carolina’s tax burden should be $3 billion higher? It’s a fair question to ask given what Charlie Perusse, the governor’s budget director, said at a...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 29, 2017


Highs, lows of NC Politics in 2017

It was a year that saw change at the top of state government, the inside of countless courtrooms and when GenX came to mean something other than people born from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The...    Read More

December 29, 2017

Does the state plan to stop pollution?

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, December 26, 2017. What’s in our water? Around here, we already know some worrisome answers to that question. Depending on where you live, it could be potentially...    Read More

December 29, 2017

Trump's impact on women and white evangelicals

We’ve not had a year like 2017 in a long time. Donald Trump has done what he promised—upended the political system. Governing by tweets with little regard for the truth, Trump is constantly on the...    Read More

December 29, 2017