NC Spin Articles


UNC to review 34 centers and institutes

Thirty-four university-based centers and institutes will have the chance to make their case for continued support next week before a UNC Board of Governors panel reviewing them. The 34 include some...    Read More

December 8, 2014

Loving the lottery

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 7, 2014. North Carolina Republicans have learned to love the lottery. The state legislature created the lottery in 2005 without a single Republican vote...    Read More

December 8, 2014


Got to pick a pocket?

Did Fagin’s pickpockets stimulate the economy of London? If you’ve read Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist or seen the musical derived from it, Oliver!, you immediately recognize the name. Fagin...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 8, 2014


Is this the return of moderate Mayor Pat

Has Mayor Pat finally arrived in Raleigh? You know, the guy who was the popular mayor of Charlotte, a Democratic-leaning city, for a record 14 years. One was wondering whether that McCrory – the...    Read More

December 7, 2014



Good luck, bad luck

Talk about a fellow being star-crossed – after the election as everyone took a deep breath and settled back peacefully for Thanksgiving the Governor, without a lot of hoopla,  quietly launched his...    Read More

December 6, 2014

Hagan and Obama, part II

You know it was a bad story when somebody says at breakfast, “Did Senator Hagan know she was being quoted when she said that about Obama?”   We don’t know. But we do know that Hagan’s...    Read More

December 6, 2014