NC Spin Articles


5 Key factors in fracking rules

If you want a more accurate picture of energy development in NC than the mainstream media provide, check out this story in NC Capitol Connection. Let’s look at five key factors. Is NC rushing...    Read More

December 22, 2014



Region no longer a pacesetter

When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest jobs report on December 19, most North Carolina politicians, journalists, economists, and policy analysts immediately zeroed in on the...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 22, 2014

Driver's ed becomes an unfunded mandate

Editorial by News and Observer, December 19, 2014. That’s local-government ease for those times when the state of North Carolina tells a county or municipal government that they must do something...    Read More

December 21, 2014



Jesse Helms and Obama's new Cuban policy

North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms received a hero’s welcome from an adoring crowd of Cuban exiles when he visited Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood in 1995 to lay a wreath at a monument to slain...    Read More

December 21, 2014


A state job built to protect the public

Editorial by Burlington Times-News, December 18, 2014. Gov. Pat McCrory has a second chance to appoint a top environmental regulator who sees the role less as a friend of business and more as the...    Read More

December 20, 2014