NC Spin Articles


Got something to hide

It’s amazing how fast politicians go from being all for openness and transparency to all-out for keeping public information from the public.   Take the Republican legislators’ fight to keep...    Read More

April 2, 2014

The law of unintended consequences

A doctor is a simple creature. He measures achievement by a straightforward standard – the Hippocratic Oath.   A businessman also measures success by a simple standard – money, income and outgo...    Read More

April 2, 2014







The "skills-gap" myth continues

A few months ago, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, and Marlene Seltzer, the chief executive of Jobs for the Future, published an article in Politico titled “Closing the Skills Gap...    Read More

April 2, 2014

Worn out on Wos

Editorial by News and Observer, March 31, 2014. There has been evidence aplenty that Aldona Wos, the state secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, isn’t up to the job. A medical...    Read More

April 2, 2014


Behind the state's jobless numbers

Editorial by Burlington Times-News, March 30, 2014. Politicians and think tanks argue as to why the state’s unemployment rate has fallen almost 3 percentage points in a year, but along with other...    Read More

April 2, 2014