NC Spin Articles

Fear of Trump immigration order spreads in NC

President Donald Trump has paid a lot of lip service to rounding up the “bad hombres” but it turns out he wants to deport a much larger group of immigrants than he led America to believe. Trump...    Read More

February 10, 2017





How can we get to four percent growth?

by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU professor of Economics, February 3, 2017. One of the major goals of the new Trump Administration is to increase the rate of economic growth in the country. The objective is to...    Read More

February 10, 2017

Repeal HB2 - and do it now

Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, February 9, 2017. The General Assembly had better act fast. As the N.C. Sports Association warned legislators this week, the NCAA is within days of nailing down...    Read More

February 10, 2017


Local black history informs all of us

Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, February 3, 2017. Black History Month in Wilmington is haunted by a lot of ghosts. Many of them are the ghosts of Nov. 10, 1898, when white mobs burned a black-owned...    Read More

February 3, 2017

Politics and woodpiles

A memorable and wholesome political event occurred in downtown Raleigh in early January. It was memorable because the purpose was to commemorate what became a landmark change in North Carolina...    Read More

February 3, 2017



The new enemy

Whether it was in his blood or whether, like a craft, it was a talent he honed he could walk into a board room and sell one group ‘the greatest deal ever’ in the morning and in the afternoon in...    Read More

February 3, 2017