Obamacare. Medicare. Medicaid. The news is filled with healthcare stories about what’s working, what’s not and who’s to blame. There’s no denying we need information but the media noise and... Read More
State Republican Party chairman Claude Pope recently asked Secretary of State Elaine Marshall to investigate Progress NC, a Democratic-leaning group, charging the group claimed to be a federal tax... Read More
If you are among the thousands of North Carolinians who pay for their own health insurance policies chances are you received – or soon will – notification that your current plan is no longer in... Read More
The Department of Health and Human Services clearly needs triage. While it serves no valuable purpose to list the litany of reasons why the department, especially our Medicaid program, is in crisis we... Read More
As predicted last week on NC SPIN, Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger announced he would not be a candidate in the May 2014 primary for the U.S. Senate. His decision was both political and pragmatic... Read More
Last weekend Governor Pat McCrory appeared on the statewide television talk show NC SPIN to discuss his first eight months in office. Throughout that interview he blamed many of the state’s current... Read More
NC SPIN is approaching a milestone, our 15th year of broadcasting balanced debate for the Old North State. I’ll never forget that first show. We were all wondering if we would have enough to talk... Read More
100,000 new residents call North Carolina home each year. From 1990 to 2010, our population grew by 44 percent and vehicle travel increased 63 percent. 54 percent of our major urban highways are... Read More
Vidant Health Systems, in Greenville, announced this week that they were closing their Pungo hospital in Belhaven. 90 or more jobs will be lost and patients in the region will be without hospital... Read More
Not too many years ago American schools were the best in the world and our kids were the smartest. But that’s not true today. A new book, The Smartest kids in the world, and how they got that way... Read More
