NC Spin Articles

Legislature has misused lottery funding

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, Published by Burlington Times-News, September 7, 2017. If we want to know why North Carolina schools haven’t improved anywhere near as much as we need them to, we...    Read More

September 8, 2017

Our state steps us, finally, for clean water

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, September 7, 2017. It’s been a while since we’ve seen North Carolina environmental regulators do what they should do: Crack down on water pollution. But that...    Read More

September 8, 2017

New districts need to be thrown out

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, September 2, 2017. When Republican state legislators once again are called to account for their gerrymandered districts, their best defense will be, “We’ve...    Read More

September 8, 2017



Ideology rules today's partisanship

by Paul O'Connor, Insider News Service, published in The Wilson Daily Times, September 6, 2017. During the July news doldrums, a young reporter asked how state politics have changed since I arrived in...    Read More

September 8, 2017

Unaffiliated voters hold the key

About 30 percent of North Carolina’s 6.8 million registered voters are Republicans. So how in the world do Republicans ever win election in the Tar Heel State? Be careful how you answer that...    Read More

by John Hood   |   September 1, 2017


Are humanities still useful in a tech world?

by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, September 1, 2017. My wife is part of a shrinking group of people. She is low-tech! Yes, she has a smart phone and a tablet – complements of me...    Read More

September 1, 2017

GOP is right to worry about Trump's performance

History suggests the 2018 congressional elections won’t be kind to Republicans. In half of the eight midterms since 1986, the party occupying the White House lost majority control of the Senate. In...    Read More

September 1, 2017