Elon's Charlotte law school
Elon University has applied to the American Bar Association for a school of law to be located in Charlotte.
Health Care
State Health Plan approves flat premiums for 2024
The Treasury Department says it has saved $1.8 billion in the last five years in negotiating new contracts and cutting expenses.
House moves Blue Cross, credit union, PBM bills
With crossover looming just a week away, the scramble to get bills through at least one chamber of the General Assembly before the deadline well and truly began on Thursday.
Senate mulls antitrust exemption for UNC Health
Senators are weighing a rewrite of the basic governance rules for the UNC Health System that will give it an antitrust exemption and cuts anyone it hires after Nov. 1 out of the Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System.
Budget & Taxes
Secretary of State Marshall asks General Assembly for more staff
Marshall said that her office has 185 employees to handle filings for new companies and other documents. She noted that there has been a "double-digit increase" in filings without any increase in staffing.
Raises are coming for state employees and teachers
Lawmakers are getting closer to a state budget that would provide for undetermined raises for state employees and teachers.
Working group to discuss NCInnovation funding
House Speaker Tim Moore says he’s assigned a work group in his chamber to work through the issues associated with the proposal to use state funds to bolster NCInnovation Inc.
Education
Pickett: App State's growth will come in Hickory
The former 230,000-square foot Corning building in Hickory is poised to be the key growth vehicle for App State in coming years.
Cooper: Investing in education helps NC be No. 1 in business
Cooper noted that North Carolina "has the best array of private and public universities in the country."
School calendar dispute still unresolved
Give local school districts more flexibility to start classes in early or mid-August?
Elections
Farley, Hardister are two candidates for labor commissioner
Raleigh lawyer Luke Farley and state Rep. Jon Hardister are two Republicans running to be the next labor commissioner for North Carolina.
Former state representative Brawley files to run for insurance commissioner
Brawley would face incumbent Mike Causey in the Republican primary
Rollback of some environmental regulations
H462 had caught my eye earlier in the session, as it calls for the rollback of some environmental regulations pertaining to aquaculture, which is the fancy way of saying fish farming. On first impression, it wasn’t obvious what the beef was all about (so to speak), but I presumed the answer would emerge in due course.