NC SPIN Podcasts
422 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsOur weekly statewide TV and radio program provides balanced debate on issues ranging from Economy & Jobs, Education, Healthcare, Public Infrastructure, Leadership and Energy.
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Episodes
Episode 337: My Spin for 7-22-22 What happens when you mix green, red and blue?
July 21, 2022 00:00 - 6 minutes - 4.65 MBTom Campbell says the Green Party petition for a new statewide political party raises many questions and points to an obvious need to change our laws.
Episode 336: My Spin for 7-14-22 Fictional reading
July 14, 2022 00:00 - 6 minutes - 4.41 MBTom Campbell remarks on Senator Phil Berger's description of the House January 6th Committee hearings as "fictional reading."
Episode 335: My Spin for 7-07-22 Would you have signed?
July 07, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.5 MBTom Campbell asks if you would have signed the Declaration of Independence, adding that those who did were courageous, bold and visionary.
Episode 334: My Spin fr 6-30-22
June 29, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 3.61 MBThe one thing about which all can agree is that elections matter. Tom Campbell says that's never more true than this year.
Episode 333: My Spin for 6-23-22 Balancing Act
June 22, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 6.01 MBBalance is good, Tom Campbell says. But our state government needs to be rebalanced.
Episode 332: My Spin for 6-16-22 Whose rights are right?
June 13, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 3.64 MBTom Campbell comments on HB755, the Parents' Bill of Rights, saying there are many groups with rights that should be codified. After a while we would be asking whose rights are the right rights
Episode 331: My Spin for 6-09-22 I done this for you. Don't screw it up.
June 08, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.56 MBThis week Tom Campbell reports on a D-day vet who returned to Normandy and says we've got to stop fighting WITH each other and start fighting FOR each other.
Episode 330: My Spin for 5-26-22 If you see something, say something
May 25, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 3.34 MBTom Campbell recounts a story about injustice and wonders why we seldom speak out when we see injustices occur.
Episode 329: My Spin for 5-19-22 Election winners: Trump, outside money and rage
May 18, 2022 00:00 - 6 minutes - 3.87 MBTom Campbell says the primary election outcomes were influenced by Donald Trump, outside independent expenditure groups and the "age of rage."
Episode 328: My Spin for 5-12-22 Is it too much to hope the short session truly is short?
May 11, 2022 00:00 - 6 minutes - 6.13 MBWith the legislature convening for the "short" session May 18, Tom Campbell voices hope they will do their work and go home.
Episode 327: My Spin for 5-05-22 May 17 will be an important day in North Carolina
May 04, 2022 00:00 - 6 minutes - 6.83 MBThis week Tom Campbell raises questions that hopefully will be answered in our important Primary Election on May 17th.
Episode 326: My Spin for 4-28-22 Don't look now but we're getting grayer
April 27, 2022 00:00 - 6 minutes - 6.99 MBTom Campbell says our state is graying and that's sure to cause stress in education, healthcare, the workforce and government services. Get ready for the Wrinkle Revolution.
Episode 325: My Spin for 4-21-22 Getting politicians to listen to us
April 20, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 6.29 MBTom Campbell says it is obvious that despite politicians may pledge to listen to the voters, but too many don't.
Episode 324: My Spin for 4-14-22 The heartbreak of saying goodbye
April 13, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.66 MBTom Campbell says that many once wonderful small towns face short and long-term problems. Sometimes the best solution is also the most painful but needs making.
Episode 323: My Spin for 4-07-22 Am I missing something?
April 06, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 6.11 MBTom Campbell says he can't understand why anyone wants to be a teacher. They don't deserve the vitriol, blame and accusations they face.
Episode 322: My Spin for 3-31-22 Children paying the price for partisan arguments
March 31, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.89 MBTom Campbell reviews the Leandro antics and says justice is as partisan as everything else. Sadly our children are paying the price for 28 years of arguing.
Episode 321: My Spin for 3-24-22 It's time to fish or cut bait
March 23, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.52 MBThis week Tom Campbell talks about the decades-old battle over fishing and says it is time to fish or cut bait to end the fighting.
Episode 321: My Spin for 3-24-22 It's time to fish or cut bait
March 23, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.52 MBThis week Tom Campbell talks about the decades-old battle over fishing and says it is time to fish or cut bait to end the fighting.
Episode 321: My Spin for 3-24-22 It's time to fish or cut bait
March 23, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.52 MBThis week Tom Campbell talks about the decades-old battle over fishing and it is time to fish or cut bait to end the fighting.
Episode 321: My Spin for 3-24-22 It's time to fish or cut bait
March 23, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.52 MBThis week Tom Campbell talks about the decades-old battle over fishing and says it is time to fish or cut bait to end the fighting.
Episode 321: My Spin for 3-24-22 It's time to fish or cut bait
March 23, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.52 MBThis week Tom Campbell talks about the decades-old battle over fishing and says it is time to fish or cut bait to end the fighting.
Episode 320: My Spin for 3-17-22 Not a record to boast about
March 16, 2022 00:00 - 40 minutes - 5.3 MBTom Campbell examines the longest legislative session in recent history and says it wasn't a record to boast about.
Episode 319: My Spin for 3-10-22
March 09, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.15 MBTom Campbell says that expecting our legislators to draw fair and impartial district maps is as impossible as teaching the proverbial pig to fly.
Episode 318: My Spin for 3-03-22 Do we have the energy?
March 02, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.96 MBTom Campbell examines the various sources for energy production, asking if we have the energy to produce the energy we need?
Episode 317: My Spin for 2-24-22 Believe in Us. Work for Us.
February 23, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.69 MBTom Campbell says we have forgotten those things that strengthened us as a nation. We need to believe in us and work for us.
Episode 316: My Spin for 2-17-22 Parents know best....or do they?
February 16, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MBTom Campbell warns us that we are being "spun" regarding many of the issues in public education and other areas.
Episode 315: My Spin for 2-10-22 Five takeaways from the Supreme Court Redistricting Decision
February 10, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.75 MBTom Campbell says that we need to act now to protect our values like fairness and equality.
Episode 314: My Spin for 2-03-22 Ending rigged elections
February 02, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 6.04 MBTom Campbell says there was a time when North Carolinians would have risen in loud and unified protests over rigged elections. Not so today. But is time to end the practice.
Episode 313: My Spin for 1-27-22 We've been over served
January 26, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.39 MBTom Campbell says modern technology is wonderful....until it isn't. Hackers and spammers are upsetting my dogs.
Episode 312: My Spin for 1-20-22 Keep the kids in class
January 19, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.86 MBTom Campbell says returning students to virtual learning would be a disaster for many reasons.
Episode 311: My Spin for 1-13-22 Is Justice Blind?
January 12, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.46 MBTom Campbell says there are increasing charges that judicial verdicts are partisan and asks whether we need to put back the blindfold on Lady Liberty.
Episode 310: My Spin for 1-06-22 We sure could use a little good news today
January 05, 2022 00:00 - 4 minutes - 5.47 MBThis week Tom Campbell talks about the formation of a new healthcare entity that is good news for the entire state.
Episode 309: My Spin for 12-30-21 What to expect in '22
December 29, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.17 MBThis week Tom Campbell predicts what we can expect with the pandemic, elections, education and society in 2022
Episode 308: My Spin for 12-23-21 Back where we began
December 23, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 6.56 MBAs we close 2021 Tom Campbell says it feels like we are back where we started this year.
Episode 307: My Spin for 12-16-21 Pendulums, clocks and gerrymandering
December 15, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.58 MBThis week Tom Campbell asks what it is going to take to move this country more to the center?
Episode 306: My Spin for 12-9-21 This year, give them North Carolina
December 08, 2021 00:00 - 3 minutes - 3.72 MBTom Campbell has an excellent gift suggestion for most anyone on your list.
Episode 305: My Spin for 12-02-21 Berger took a good first step
December 01, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.78 MBThis week Tom Campbell applauds the move to combine the administration of k-12, universities and community colleges in one location. But a next step is needed.
Episode 304: My Spin for 11-25-21 Over the river...and speeding
November 23, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.4 MBThis week Tom Campbell talks about the increase of excessive speeding in our state
Episode 303: My Spin for 11-18-21 Mad as you-know-what and not going to take it
November 17, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.64 MBThis week Tom Campbell reports our state had a 31 percent increase in violent crime.
Episode 302: My Spin for 11-11-21 Trust
November 09, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 5.04 MBTom Campbell acknowledges we don't like being told what to do but who tells us is as important as what we are told.
Episode 301: My Spin for 11-04-21 How can the weak grow strong with no help?
November 03, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.54 MBThis week Tom Campbell says opposition to Medicaid expansion is bogus.
Episode 300: My Spin for 10-28-21 Lumpy and sour tasting redistricting pudding
October 27, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 5.05 MBTom Campbell declares that redistricting needs a better recipe.
Episode 299: My Spin for 10-21-21 Do we even want to go back to pre-pandemic work conditions?
October 20, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 3.71 MBThis week Tom Campbell says we are seeing a worker revolution not seen since women entered the workplace in support of WW II.
Episode 298: My Spin for 10-15-21 Democrats don't know how to fight it and Republicans won't
October 14, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.25 MBThis week Tom Campbell talks about how to stop the bullying, harassment and intimidation prevalent in our state.
Episode 297: My Spin for 10-07-21 Another man sounds off on abortion
October 06, 2021 00:00 - 3 minutes - 5.82 MBTom Campbell says it is ironic that most of the laws and the pontificating about abortion is coming from men.
Episode 296: My Spin for 9-30-21
September 29, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 6.15 MBThis week Tom Campbell recounts a Sunday afternoon conversation with his wife and encourages us to continue the discussion.
Episode 295: My Spin for 9-23-21 Comments from the clip file
September 22, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 6.12 MBThis week Tom Campbell says there are so many items to comment on that he's included four in one podcast.
Episode 294: My Spin for 9-16-21 Ways to avoid another failed school year
September 15, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.63 MBTom Campbell discusses ways our children can have a more successful year.
Episode 293: My Spin for 9-09-21 Is it really worth $850,000 per month?
September 08, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 6.4 MBTom Campbell says the legislature is batting 0 for 3 in resolving their main tasks for this session.
Episode 292: My Spin for 9-02-21 We don't have to be pawns
September 01, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.39 MBTom Campbell says most of us don't know when we are being manipulated like pawns. But we don't have to be pawns.