Solar or nukes? Duke critics question priorities
Duke Energy’s long-range development plans are underselling solar power and
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
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
Fiscal Research sees a cloudy economic picture
Legislative staffers are expecting pretty much all the state’s key economic indicators to slow in fiscal 2026-27 — just in time for next year’s mid-term elections. Their reckoning, based on numbers...
Hall sets up House examination of property taxes
House Speaker Destin Hall has formed a special committee to examine and counter the rise in local-government property taxes. Reps. Julia Howard, R-Davie, Erin Paré, R-Wake, and Mitchell Setzer, R-Catawba,...
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
Cooper backs stock-trading ban for Congress
Former Gov. Roy Cooper says he’d support legislation that would ban members of Congress and “top executive branch officials” from owning or trading individual stocks.
Pollster: Page up 10 points on Berger
A Massachusetts-based pollster says its latest check on the Phil Berger-Sam Page GOP primary in Rockingham and Guilford counties shows Page holding a 9.6-point lead on the longtime Senate leader....
Winslow: Done after three terms
State Rep. Matthew Winslow, R-Franklin, isn’t going to run for re-election to the District 7 seat representing Franklin and southern Vance counties. Winslow, a custom-home builder and East Carolina grad,...