Reg reform and granny flats
House members have passed and returned to the Senate an
Health Care
UNC Health takeover of psychiatric hospitals?
The House’s involuntary-commitment reform bill includes provisions that ask UNC Health to consider taking over the operations of North Carolina’s three state-owned psychiatric hospitals. House
Community Colleges struggles to fill nursing posts
North Carolina has a nursing shortage, but the N.C. Community Colleges has its own problems when it comes to hiring instructors in the field to train people who could close...
Hall on WakeMed/Atrium merger
House Speaker Destin Hall isn’t inclined to join the parade of elected officials criticizing the proposed WakeMed/Atrium hospital-system merger. “Both of them certainly know what they’re doing, and I imagine...
Budget & Taxes
Legislators want to clamp down on occupancy-tax diversions
House members aren’t about to let the ink dry on a recent state Supreme Court ruling without acting to stop Currituck County and other places
Pay increases pressuring city and county budgets
Now that the calendar has turned to June, it’s about time for cities and counties across to start passing their budgets. Along with those, in many places, will come raises...
State Supreme Court sides with Currituck Co.
There’s nothing wrong with Currituck County’s decision to use some of its hotel-tax revenue to bankroll police, EMS and fire services, the N.C. Supreme Court says. County leaders have the...
Education
Community Colleges struggles to fill nursing posts
North Carolina has a nursing shortage, but the N.C. Community Colleges has its own problems when it comes to hiring instructors in the field to
Senate bill funds Khan Academy AI tutors
Legislators returning to Raleigh this week from their Memorial Day holiday will find a docket that includes an omnibus reform bill for the state’s K-12 schools. Senate Bill 1006 is...
N.C. A&T trustee resigns
Mark Copeland, vice chair of the N.C. A&T State University board of trustees, resigned from that post last week. Copeland’s resignation on April 24 came a day after State Auditor...
Elections
Wake Forest commissioner tabbed for Senate seat
Democratic Party leaders in Wake and Granville counties have named lawyer and Wake Forest Town Commissioner Haseeb Fatmi as the replacement for former state Sen.
Cohn’s hat in the ring for Everitt Senate seat
State Rep. Bryan Cohn, D-Granville, says he’s signaled to the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate that he’s willing to step in as a replacement for former Sen. Terence...
Majeed goes unaffiliated
Another Mecklenburg County legislator who lost in March’s Democratic Party primaries has turned in his membership card. District 99 Rep. Nasif Majeed announced via social media that he’s changing his...