At the behest of the N.C. Department of Insurance, legislators this year may completely rewrite the statute that establishes the regulatory framework for North Carolina’s 63 licensed community care retirement communities.
Current estimates suggest East Carolina University can start construction late in 2024 on the Brody School of Medicine’s new, $215 million home, but campus and UNC System leaders say there’s no time like now to begin expanding the school’s roster of trainees.
Republican legislators are usually fans of cutting taxes, and with legislative- and executive-branch economists agreeing the state’s on track for about a $3.3 billion surplus in fiscal 2022-23, there are already rumblings that more cuts might be on the way.
Sen. Bill Rabon’s medical marijuana bill cleared its first committee hurdle on Tuesday and is likely to get a floor vote in the chamber early next week, provided the timetable he sees ahead for it holds.
Don’t go counting your surpluses before they hatch. Fiscal Research Division economist Emma Turner didn’t say that, exactly, to House and Senate appropriations committee members during a briefing Tuesday morning on the consensus revenue forecast from her office and the Office of State Budget and Management.
The UNC System’s Board of Governors is meeting this week and among other things is scheduled to ratify its fiscal 2023-24 budget request to the General Assembly.
To the surprise of no one, particularly in state Treasurer Dale Folwell’s office, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of N.C. is taking its fight to keep the contract for serving the State Health Plan to the courts.
The first few weeks of the long session have been full of bills we’ve seen before – from legislation previously vetoed by Gov. Roy Cooper to bills that just didn’t make it across the finish line last year.
Housing markets in North Carolina’s major cities, like their counterparts elsewhere in the U.S., seemingly suffer from the classic inflationary problem of too much money chasing too few goods.
The N.C. Democratic Party has new leadership, but key legislators say new Chairwoman Anderson Clayton and her team face an old challenge: money, and how to get its hands on enough to help the party’s candidates compete.
Workplace safety advocates have long voiced doubts that the N.C. Department of Labor has a sufficient number of inspectors to monitor rules compliance at job sites, factories and other businesses.
State Treasurer Dale Folwell plans to turn up the heat again on the state’s hospitals at a 10 a.m. press conference today, issuing a report criticizing executive compensation at the state’s nine largest hospital systems.
A bipartisan group of legislators packed into the General Assembly press conference room Wednesday morning to voice their support for the state’s 10 historically Black colleges and universities.
Democratic Party leaders from across the state will meet this weekend to elect their state party chair – a contest that could have big implications for their direction.
The House plans to vote next week on expanding Medicaid, but it’s unclear if the legislature is any closer to reaching a compromise that can pass both chambers.
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