Trisha Byers left behind one crucial item when she moved to North Carolina last year to be closer to her family after suffering a brain injury: health insurance. In Massachusetts, Byers, 39, was enrolled in Medicaid, the government health program that covers low-income people. But she was ineligible in North Carolina, which had not yet […]
Summerfield’s legal bills soared to a record last fiscal year, but by exactly how much remains a mystery to the public. Since taking charge June 11, interim Town Manager and Finance Officer Dana Luther hasn’t released monthly reports of the town’s finances for June, the last month in fiscal year 2023-24, and July, the first […]
The battle to limit house size continues in the Town of Oak Island, but one player has been removed from the field. Planning board member Melanie Morgan submitted her resignation in early August after two of her colleagues filed code of ethics complaints against her. The complaints, cataloged by council members Terri Cartner and Bob […]
The Haywood County Tourism Development Authority voted Thursday to rescind a grant promoting the county as a welcoming destination for all people, citing concerns over what it called the recipients’ selection process for participants as well as its political activities. Meanwhile, a founder of the Inclusion, Diversity & Equity Alliance (IDEA) of Haywood, one of […]
A job-creation project in southeast High Point is a step closer to reality following a property acquisition this week. A company affiliated with C&C Industries purchased a tract that includes a vacant 108,000-square-foot industrial building at 2103 Brentwood St. The purchase price was $5 million, and the seller was a limited liability company in Boca […]
One in four North Carolina students — 417,000 kids — was “chronically absent” from school during the 2022-23 school year, state data show. It’s an improvement from the year before, when about one in three kids was chronically absent; North Carolina actually made some of the biggest progress among U.S. states, data gathered by the […]
The White House unveiled the fruits of months of negotiations between the government and pharmaceutical companies: new, lower Medicare prices for 10 blockbuster drugs. The discounts range from 79% for diabetes drug Januvia to 38% for blood cancer drug Imbruvica. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra played up the savings Wednesday evening. In a […]
Americans born to low-income families are faring worse than the last generation in the Triangle, and in most of the country’s largest metro areas, a new analysis finds. Why it matters: Intergenerational mobility — the idea that you’ll do better than your parents, your children will do better than you, and so on — is […]
Last week’s celebration was a testament to the power of community and the strength of our collective vision. It was exhilarating to see leaders from both sides of the river and political spectrum come together as the Federal Highway Administrator announced an unprecedented grant of $242 million for the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement thanks […]
A new state panel has laid out specifics designed to bring numerous North Carolina state government agencies together to work on improving outcomes for prisoners when they are released, leading to reduced recidivism. The Joint Reentry Council created by Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive order in January approved last week a plan to meet more than […]
New changes are being proposed to Sylva’s panhandling ordinance, and although a public hearing is not required for the Sylva Town Board to amend the ordinance that governs its streets and sidewalks, the town will hold a public hearing on the proposed changes next month after one board member urged the town to do so. […]
Tuesday’s town hall with New Hanover County Schools board members, executive staff and teachers was a positive one, according to some participants and board members. “It went well,” board member Hugh McManus said. “The honest, straight input from teachers, principals, instructional coaches, cafeteria staff, bus drivers and cafeteria staff to name a few should be […]
A new working draft study out of Wake Forest University is the most comprehensive analysis of the personnel crisis at Mission Hospital to date, using hundreds of interviews, documents and media reports to tell the story of a mass exodus of doctors, a poor working environment for nurses and a dangerous situation for patients, all […]
Construction equipment beeped and whirred in the background and dump trucks roared in the distance during a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for Commerce Street Apartments, a 172-unit, mixed-income apartment complex in downtown Durham. Local, state and national housing officials called the construction noise sounds of progress. “I thought that was an intentional soundtrack for today,” said […]
Two members of the Guilford County Board of Education had stern words for the Guilford County Board of Commissioners after passing a resolution Tuesday night pledging to use revenue from a proposed sales tax increase for school system workers’ pay. The school board voted unanimously and without discussion to approve the resolution that will be […]
