The Local Government Commission’s naughty list for financially challenged municipalities and counties just got longer. The official name for the designation is the “distressed” list, and local governments get on it when they fail to submit required financial audits for at least two years.
It’s been years since the legislature allocated $1.5 million to install “panic alarms” in schools as a safety measure, but the state agencies overseeing the project haven’t yet spent any of the money to install alarm systems.
The N.C. Department of Public Safety is asking the legislature for $500,000 in the short session to finish moving the prison system to a separate Cabinet-level agency called the Department of Adult Correction.
Most everyone agrees that telehealth is a fantastic improvement in how we access medical professionals. But the question is: How much should it cost, and how much should insurance be required to pay?
In addition to telehealth, legislators heard Tuesday about the potential for North Carolina to set up its own health care marketplace under the Affordable Care Act instead of using healthcare.gov.
While Club For Growth’s support for U.S. Rep. Ted Budd has so far dominated the outside spending flowing into the U.S. Senate race, a PAC backing former Gov. Pat McCrory is now dropping about $330,000 for a TV ad hitting Budd back.
Speaking of committees charting the future of education, the House Select Committee on An Education System for North Carolina’s Future wrapped up a four-stop series of public hearings across the state on Monday evening in Morehead County.
North Carolina has had a lot of blue-ribbon panels looking to chart the future of education in our state. And the downside of bringing together a lot of diverse viewpoints is that often the final recommendations end up full of vague platitudes in an effort to avoid areas of disagreement.
Sen. Jay Chaudhuri, D-Wake and one of the top Democrats in the Senate, is holding a fundraiser Wednesday with Gov. Roy Cooper, and a Facebook ad promoting the event caught my eye.
Chowan and Davidson counties are the biggest winners in the latest round of Rural Infrastructure Authority’s Building Reuse Program grants.
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If you get all your political news from signs by the side of the road, you might think next month’s primary only features races for sheriff, state legislature and a few other local offices.
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis has already endorsed U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s primary opponent, N.C. Sen. Chuck Edwards, and publicly slammed the incumbent, saying he “has fallen well short of the most basic standards Western North Carolina expects from their representatives.”
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All three of the main candidates in the 4th congressional district Democratic primary are benefitting from hefty amounts of out-of-state fundraising. But the biggest beneficiary so far is N.C. Sen. Valerie Foushee, D-Orange and the preferred candidate of much of the party establishment.
