NC Spin Articles

Exploiting the racial and cultural divide

If you want to get an idea of what the 2018 election cycle will look like, check out the races in Virginia. It’s not pretty. Both sides are using ugly racial and cultural stereotypes to gin up their...    Read More

November 3, 2017

Bathroom brawl is back again

Just when you thought North Carolina had moved on from debating bathrooms, House Bill 2 is back in the headlines thanks to a surprise move by Gov. Roy Cooper. Cooper wants to resolve a lawsuit brought...    Read More

November 3, 2017

Should all university property be tax exempt

Connecticut legislators made headlines last year when they introduced a bill to tax revenue-generating college and university property. The bill was crafted to help New Haven, where Yale University is...    Read More

November 3, 2017


Any home for the political middle?

The bottom has fallen out of the Republican Party.” So wrote Fort Worth’s Star-Telegram columnist Cynthia Allen last week. “Well,” she continued, “not the bottom exactly. More like the...    Read More

by D. G. Martin   |   November 3, 2017

Stand up to hate

Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, November 3, 2017. The recent ugly act of hanging a paper noose in a school restroom was compounded by being recorded on a video that circulated on social media...    Read More

November 3, 2017

Cooper picks unwise political fights

During the 2016 gubernatorial campaign, Democratic politicians, progressive activists, and left-leaning media outlets excoriated Pat McCrory and other North Carolina Republicans for elevating divisive...    Read More

by John Hood   |   October 27, 2017



Richest areas claim most jobs incentives cash

A few months after taking office, Gov. Roy Cooper took the stage in a Research Triangle Park office building to announce a 1,200-job deal with Credit Suisse in exchange for $40 million in incentives...    Read More

October 27, 2017

NC's growing trash problem poses challenge

North Carolina residents generate almost 12 million tons of trash every year. As the state's population grows, concerns are also mounting in the Triangle over where to discard all of that garbage...    Read More

October 27, 2017


In the wrong hands

Editorial by The Greensboro News-Record, October 25, 2017. Call it the Mikel Brady rule. Inmates “with convictions of a violent crime against a government official and/or law enforcement are...    Read More

October 27, 2017