NC Spin Articles

Heat without reason

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 23, 2016. Today’s special legislation session is fueled by red-hot emotion. The public should demand cool reason instead. Lawmakers clamoring to overturn a...    Read More

March 24, 2016

Governor's re-election won't be that easy

Three hours after John Davis released his optimistic column on Governor McCrory’s re-election chances, based mostly on the successful passage of the $2 billion bond issue on March 15, I wrote John...    Read More

March 24, 2016

Let's learn how to disagree

When it comes to politics, North Carolina is a closely divided state in many ways. Look at party, for instance. According to an early-March poll for WRAL-TV, 32 percent of registered voters in our...    Read More

by John Hood   |   March 23, 2016

Trumpenstein

Good ol’ Harry Reid gave the Republican Party hell last week for creating its Trump Frankenstein monster. Reid just didn’t go far enough. In a Washington speech, “Give ‘em hell” Harry said...    Read More

March 22, 2016

A pebble

Talk about a politician doing an about face. And another about face. And a third about face. Six years ago when she was elected to Congress, Renee Ellmers ran as an Outsider. But after she arrived in...    Read More

March 22, 2016

Trump campaign all about the Donald

Much ink has been spilled on the Donald Trump phenomenon. Practitioners and the public seem obsessed with the guy, and pundits are analyzing every dimension of his presidential campaign. He is, after...    Read More

March 22, 2016