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My Spin: Our Reading Recession
Not only is reading fundamental but it helps gives us pleasure, adds perspective, teaches us history, improves our critical thinking skills, as well as our language and relational skills.
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My Spin: We Do Need to Worry About Election Integrity
Campbell says that voters in NC are confused and confounded as to whether their vote will count.
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My Spin: About Teen Takeovers
Campbell suggests real world solutions for new world problems.
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My Spin: North Carolina's Housing Crisis
The building boom is disguising a huge housing shortage in North Carolina but there are big payoffs for reducing our housing crisis.
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My Spin: Is This the Best Budget Our Lawmakers Could Come Up With?
Highlights from the state budget agreed upon behind closed doors with no opportunity to amend or revise it in floor debate but approved in an up or down vote.
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My Spin: Is North Carolina Ready for a Political Regime Change?
Let’s acknowledge tax cuts were justified and helped stimulate our economy. But we’ve cut enough and at some point need to question who is going pay for state government services?
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My Spin: Do We Want More People to Vote or Not?
If we truly believe that our system works best when the largest number participate, we can no longer ignore Unaffiliated voters.
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My Spin: How Much We've Changed Since Our 200th Anniversary Celebration
The question we ask ourselves is not just how we got ourselves in this state but, more importantly, what will help us climb out of the morass we perceive.
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My Spin: Paying for Poor Health
Almost 18 percent of this country’s gross domestic product, about one in every five dollars generated, goes towards medical goods and service. We spend 2 to 3 times what other countries spend.
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My Spin: Do we want to be a one-party state?
Campbell say that "proportional voting promises to end one party rule, improve governance, simplify elections and encourage greater participation by voters and candidates."
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My Spin: Budget framework is flawed
Tom Campbell explores Constitutional amendments and key points of the state budget.
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My Spin: What Checks and Balances?
Lawmakers don’t want to be checked and balance is not even on their agenda.