House Democratic Leader Robert Reives, D-Chatham, argues that Tuesday’s announcement that Vietnamese automaker VinFast will build electric SUVs in his home county is more than just an economic development win. He chalks it up to the increasing bipartisan spirit in state politics.
Legislators on the study committee considering Medicaid expansion spent nearly four hours Tuesday hearing about a completely different piece of health care legislation.
U.S. Rep. Ted Budd’s campaign on Monday touted a new poll commissioned by the conservative N.C. Values Coalition. It’s got Budd in the lead with 32% over former Gov. Pat McCrory at 29% – although the lead is within the poll’s margin of error.
Nearly two months into the application period for $350 million in state broadband infrastructure grants, the N.C. Department of Information Technology has received just seven applications. The agency is pushing back the application deadline, which was originally set for April 4, to May 4.
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N.C. Sen. Wiley Nickel, D-Wake, is out with one of the first TV ads in the crowded 13th District congressional race. Nickel’s ad highlights his ties to his onetime boss, former President Barack Obama, and urges support for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Nearly a year after U.S. Rep. Alma Adams introduced legislation to create a grant program to update HBCU campuses, two of her Republican colleagues in the North Carolina delegation have signed on as co-sponsors.
Another national PAC is coming after former Gov. Pat McCrory with new attack ads. An ad that surfaced Wednesday from the Conservative Outsider PAC paints McCrory as a supporter of immigration sanctuary city policies, using a clip of comments he made about immigrants years ago as Charlotte mayor.
Speed was key in the spring of 2020 when state leaders set up a “Rapid Recovery” loan program to help struggling businesses. They tasked the Golden LEAF Foundation and the N.C. Rural Center with running the initiative, and from a speed standpoint, it was successful: the $75 million allocated was …
While the two races for N.C. Supreme Court will be hotly contested this year, only one has a primary.
Republicans haven’t been happy with the judge overseeing the Leandro education funding lawsuit, so it’s no surprise that the Republican N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby has picked a new judge for the case.
This month, Cooper is putting a big emphasis on promoting a community college scholarship program he helped create. Tuesday marked the third event in as many weeks in which Cooper traveled outside Raleigh to tout the Longleaf Commitment program.
The House principal clerk’s office recently released a list of the legislators who are either running unopposed for re-election or not seeking re-election to the House, as well as former lawmakers running to return to office.
The House committee charged with determining the future of education spent Monday evening in Union County hearing success stories from the local public school system, community college and private university.
In his presentation to lawmakers last week, Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority CEO Casey Cooper provided a history lesson on the federal government’s legal obligations to provide health care to American Indian communities. He pointed out that in more than 22 treaties between 1778 and 1871, the U.S. government agreed to …
