Berger up 4 in race with Page, poll says
A new poll is claiming that Senate leader Phil Berger
Health Care
Conservative group eyes case against nurse-practice limits
A California-based conservative group wants to take on North Carolina’s restrictions on advanced-practice nurses, even as the so-called SAVE Act remains bogged down on the
Duke Health gets OK for tax-exempt bond issue
Duke Health has gained access to up to $275.7 million in tax-exempt bonds to cover the cost of its purchase in April of the former Lake Norman Regional Medical Center....
State Health Plan staving off projected deficit, for now
The State Health Plan is out of the woods financially, at least for the short term, but members are likely to see further premium and benefits changes in 2027, its...
Budget & Taxes
Roxboro: Praised for raising property taxes
The Local Government Commission has given Roxboro’s government permission to borrow $922,542 to buy five police cars, a fire truck, a garbage truck and an
Boliek briefs legislators on lapse-salary report
State Auditor Dave Boliek has promised legislators they’ll have his office’s full report on state-agency lapsed salaries next week, after his aides incorporate the responses from each of the departments...
House panel opens review of property tax policy
House Speaker Destin Hall’s marching orders to the legislators he’s assigned to review North Carolina’s property tax system raise the possibility of amending the state constitution to provide relief to...
Education
Achievement gaps in the crosshairs
Wednesday’s House Oversight hearing also allowed legislators to sound off about a perennial issue within the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, namely the large “achievement gap”
Out of state enrollment becoming problem for UNC’s N.C. Promise
UNC officials are looking to strengthen financial penalties against any of the system’s four N.C. Promise universities that enroll too many first-time, first-year student from out of state. The prospective...
NCSU seeks OK for semiconductor degree
UNC’s Board of Governors meets this week to address a docket that includes an NC State proposal to launch a new master’s degree in wide-bandgap semiconductors. Campus officials at State...
Elections
Berger up 4 in race with Page, poll says
A new poll is claiming that Senate leader Phil Berger has about a four percentage point lead in his District 26 GOP primary battle against
Former state GOP official helping Cunningham
The legal team that drafted Rep. Carla Cunningham’s petition to remove Mecklenburg County’s sheriff from office includes a former N.C. Republican Party operative. Philip Thomas, one of the two lawyers...
Cunningham seeks ouster of Mecklenburg sheriff
Rep. Carla Cunningham has joined forces with a quartet of former Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office deputies to petition for a court-ordered removal of county Sheriff Garry McFadden. The petition accused...