NC Spin Articles

Underfunded and failing

By every objective measure, we are underfunded and we are failing.” That’s how Larry Armstrong, longtime attorney for the Halifax County Board of Education, summed up the task before Gov. Roy...    Read More

December 1, 2017


Duke Energy should pay some coal ash costs

Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, November 28, 2017. This is how business works (the really short and oversimplified version): You add up all the costs of doing what you do — labor, utilities...    Read More

December 1, 2017



Banner year for NC economic outlook

With 2017 coming to a close in the next month, North Carolina has received yet another recognition of its financial health, being named Forbes’ Best State for Business. North Carolina was the only...    Read More

December 1, 2017



Parties differ on government's scope

Most voters in North Carolina and the rest of America cast ballots reliably for either Democratic or Republican politicians — even if the voters themselves don’t belong to a party. That’s pretty...    Read More

by John Hood   |   November 23, 2017


We're finally ready for an automobile plant

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, November 19, 2017. Toyota and Mazda, we’re ready. Credible reports say North Carolina is a finalist for a $1.6 billion auto factory that could employ...    Read More

November 23, 2017


Protect prison workers

Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, November 23, 2017. State data obtained by The Associated Press underscores that our governor and legislature must work all the harder at efforts to protect prison...    Read More

November 23, 2017