NC Spin Articles

Hagan continues to lead close Senate race

PPP's newest North Carolina poll continues to find Kay Hagan in the lead, although the race has tightened slightly compared to a month ago. Hagan is at 42% to 38% for Thom Tillis with Libertarian Sean...    Read More

August 20, 2014


House revolt crashes incentives bill

Twenty-eight House Republicans bolted party ranks Tuesday, joining 26 Democrats to defeat an economic incentives program that some labeled “corporate welfare.” It was a rebuke to House Speaker...    Read More

August 20, 2014


Stick with the winning playbook

Gov. Pat McCrory and some Republican lawmakers in the General Assembly say they need more “tools” for economic development in North Carolina — by which they mean targeted tax breaks and...    Read More

by John Hood   |   August 20, 2014

Tea Party hits the skids

The battered and bedraggled Tea Partiers have been taking it on the chin – they’ve gotten pounded, losing races in Tennessee, Kansas, Texas, Kentucky, South Carolina and Mississippi so, now, the...    Read More

August 19, 2014

Legislative polls: Can coattails fly up?

The day after Republicans took control of the legislature and the Governor’s Mansion for the first time since the 19th century, former Raleigh Mayor and then-GOP party chair, Tom Fetzer told WRAL...    Read More

August 19, 2014


More homework

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 18, 2014. For growing numbers of North Carolina students, there’s no place like home. The number of home schools in North Carolina has doubled over the...    Read More

August 19, 2014


McCrory appoints Mark Martin Chief Justice

The governor’s appointment of Mark Martin to take over as N.C. Supreme Court chief justice in September answers one question but raises another. North Carolinians now know who will fill the seat...    Read More

August 19, 2014


USDA: Cost to raise a child up to $245,340

A message for new parents: get ready for sticker shock. A child born in 2013 will cost a middle-income American family an average of $245,340 until he or she reaches the age of 18, with families...    Read More

August 19, 2014