Local Government Commission members have given ECU Health permission to borrow up to $700 million to refinance existing debts and add to its facilities. ECU Health intends to use $200...
WakeMed is losing two of its key executives even as the debate about its planned merger with Atrium Health continues. Thomas Gough, WakeMed’s COO, is leaving for a similar post...
The N.C. Education Lottery’s fastest-growing new offerings also generate the lowest rate of return for North Carolina’s schools, State Auditor Dave Boliek and his team
Touting it as a major shift, State Treasurer Brad Briner and his aides say they’re going to subject North Carolina’s largest cities to the same level of financial oversight as...
State Auditor Dave Boliek says the Local Government Commission should more closely scrutinize the borrowing requests it fields from the N.C. Housing Finance Agency. Boliek briefly held up but ultimately...
About 25% of North Carolina’s K-12 school children attend a charter, private or home school, but the pattern of choice varies considerably across the state,
Five UNC System universities, including both its flagships, lost ground in the updated campus-free-speech rankings issued by the Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. UNC Chapel Hill took the...
The N.C. Education Lottery’s fastest-growing new offerings also generate the lowest rate of return for North Carolina’s schools, State Auditor Dave Boliek and his team say. Online “digital instant games”...
GOP First Congressional District nominee Laurie Buckhout has been suspended from the online prediction market Kalshi for three years, apparently for betting on her own campaign. The New York City...
A couple of Down East Republicans are touting state House’s interest in passing restrictions on data-center development, even though the bill’s stalled in the Senate and its fate in the...
