Morgan Casey/CityView White hard hats donned and shining silver ceremonial shovels in hand, officials from Methodist University, Cape Fear Valley Health and the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners marked on Tuesday the official start of construction on the Methodist University Cape Fear Valley Health School of Medicine. “Today, we’re celebrating the groundbreaking of the nation’s […]
Gerard Albert III/Blue Ridge Public Radio With Transylvania County school board leaders saying they will share responsibility for spending tens of millions of dollars on school repair construction projects, county commissioners have agreed to consider a new intergovernmental agreement. In a unanimous vote this week, county commissioners directed their county manager to negotiate an agreement […]
Two U.S. House committees have issued a “majority staff report” that reiterates worries about continuing to allow American ports to rely on ship-to-shore container cranes made in China. Issued Thursday, the report doubled down on past arguments that the products of Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries — maker of the Port of Wilmington’s seven cranes — […]
North Carolina Democrats from Gov. Roy Cooper on down are cheering a state Supreme Court ruling in neighboring South Carolina that invalidated part of that state’s school-voucher system. “Even the conservative South Carolina Supreme Court knows private school vouchers schemes are wrong,” Cooper tweeted on Wednesday shortly after the ruling came down. But if anyone […]
If you had an outbreak of squabbling among the General Assembly’s Republicans on your September bingo card, place your marker now, because there’s been one. The Carolina Partnership for Reform — an advocacy group long thought to have close ties to Senate leader Phil Berger — went public on Thursday with a article that ripped […]
CVS Health is the independents’ main antagonist in this fight because it operates what’s widely reckoned to be the country’s leading PBM, CVS Caremark. And while many PBMs are vertically integrated, CVS is the only one of the top six that has its own chain of retail pharmacies, the Federal Trade Commission says. So HB […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A proposed draft rule outlining health standards for PFAS in groundwater, which supports about 50% of drinking water in North Carolina, is heading for public comment. The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission on Thursday morning unanimously waived a 30-day public notice, a move that expedites the rulemaking process for three per- […]
Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News The state legislature approved funding Wednesday to meet higher costs for NC Medicaid in the current fiscal year. But their number came in below what state health officials had been asking for — by about $81 million. The state Department of Health and Human Services had asked for almost half a […]
Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press The Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature passed a supplemental spending bill Wednesday that eliminates a large waitlist for private school vouchers and also directs sheriffs to assist federal immigration agents seeking jail inmates. While Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper almost assuredly will veto the measure, it’s still poised to become law later […]
Dan Kane/The (Raleigh) News & Observer Since 2020, state lawmakers have spent millions to put a private company’s science-based video game in North Carolina public schools even though few students are playing. Demand for the Plasma Games product has remained low, state education officials say, even after the company dangled a chance at a free […]
Bill Stephens/Trains Norfolk Southern today terminated the contracts of embattled CEO Alan Shaw and the railroad’s chief legal officer, Nabanita Nag, for having a consensual relationship in violation of company policy. The NS board unanimously named Chief Financial Officer Mark George as president and chief executive officer, effective immediately, the railroad announced Wednesday evening. George […]
Sarah Honosky/Asheville Citizen Times The city’s newly released 113-page Affordable Housing Plan doesn’t mince words when characterizing the crisis: Today, it says in the opening paragraphs, more than a third of all Asheville households are cost-burdened, paying more than 30% of their incomes on housing costs. Between 2015 and 2021, Asheville’s median rent increased 33% […]
Emily Mikkelsen/WGHP News The Republican candidate for North Carolina lieutenant governor gave an impassioned and conspiratorial speech at a religious gathering over the weekend. Republican Hal Weatherman, former chief of staff for past Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, now lieutenant governor hopeful, spoke at Parks Crossroads Church in Ramseur on Sunday and addressed what he described […]
Gerard Albert III/Blue Ridge Public Radio Hundreds of investors – hoping to become U.S. residents by funding expansion of one of Western North Carolina’s largest sports facilities – may miss out as a key entity wrangles with immigration officials over an unpaid annual fee. A local economic-focused group, called the Appalachian EB-5 Regional Center, assembled […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square Lawmakers in North Carolina’s House of Representatives took the final step to immediately make law a proposal on building codes and regulatory reform over the objection of the governor. Another bill vetoed by Gov. Roy Cooper on court-filed documents was scheduled for the first week of October. Senate Bill 166, 2024 […]
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