NC Spin Articles

Boost facility funding from lottery

State Sen. Rick Horner can quip with the best of them. During a recent debate about school construction needs in North Carolina, the Wilson County lawmaker and former school-board chairman argued that...    Read More

by John Hood   |   October 20, 2017

Arguments wrap in partisan gerrymandering case

Arguments wrapped Thursday in a North Carolina lawsuit that aims to change American politics. The case targets partisan gerrymandering in general and North Carolina's current congressional map in...    Read More

October 20, 2017



A glimmer of hope in health care debate

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, October 18, 2017. From day to day ... .and from tweet to tweet ... who can tell where Donald Trump stands on health care coverage for the most vulnerable Americans...    Read More

October 20, 2017

Our deadly prisons

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, October 18, 2017. The deadly attack at a state prison last week exposed the extremely dangerous conditions inside the walls. Two employees were killed and...    Read More

October 20, 2017

Bullying in the year of the veto

Editorial by The Fayetteville Observer, October 17, 2017. We could call it the Year of the Veto. But it’s probably more accurate to use the longer form: the year when good government was sacrificed...    Read More

October 20, 2017






Wacky rules complicate municipal elections

If the rules for Raleigh’s municipal elections had applied to last year’s governor’s race, Pat McCrory would have had the power to send voters back to the polls in December. It would have been...    Read More

October 20, 2017