Millennial voters hard to motivate
The so-called millennial generation helped to elect Barack Obama in 2008. But their turnout faded in 2012 because their expectations for instant gratification were not met, and they hold a jaded view... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Tolling the damage to reproductive freedom from the 2015 General Assembly
We are finally on the other side of the tunnel that was the 2015 legislative session, and it has now become clear that the reproductive freedoms of North Carolinians have, once again, been gravely... Read More
Hillary versus The Donald
This will be The Greatest Show on Earth. Or maybe a sign of the End Times. It will pit the yin and yang of American politics, the alpha and omega, Wonder Woman versus Captain America, Good versus Evil... Read More
Time to end the circus that is embarrassing UNC
It has been 9 months since the UNC Board of Governors unexpectedly and clumsily fired President Tom Ross at its January meeting with little notice and no justification. At a bizarre news conference... Read More
Legislators: Take this job and shove it
Want to know why so many legislators aren’t running again? Here’s a fact: serving in the General Assembly is just not fun. Case in point is Rep. Nathan Baskerville (D-Vance), who announced... Read More
A win for election integrity
Republicans seeking to require photo identification for North Carolina voters uttered the words “election integrity” and “integrity of the ballot box” countless times in recent years... Read More
Ethics group targets Carolina Rising
A national watchdog groups has asked the IRS to sanction Carolina Rising, a nonprofit group that played a key role in North Carolina's 2014 U.S. Senate election, The Center for Public Integrity... Read More
State leaders' job promises continue to come up short
Almost 40 percent of the companies North Carolina officials announced would bring jobs to the state in exchange for taxpayer-funded incentive cash have failed to hire a single worker, according to new... Read More
Education reform fails without well-paid teachers
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, October 19, 2015. Shortly after the school year began in August, Cumberland County schools had nearly 90 teaching vacancies. Robeson County, a much smaller school... Read More
Six trends to shape 2016
Prediction is very difficult,” said physicist Niels Bohr, “especially if it’s about the future.” This sounds like a sort of Yogi Berra-style quip. But Bohr was actually making a serious point... Read More
