Justin Welch/Technician NC State has revised its anti-discrimination policy following a settlement with the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law. Some experts believe the obligations in the agreement could challenge freedom of speech on campus. The settlement arose from a Title VI complaint alleging the University failed to address a hostile environment amid […]
UNC Health has asked the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services for permission to establish a new, 50-bed hospital in Wake Forest (the town in Wake County, that is, not the university in Winston-Salem). Officials with the health system applied for a certificate of need for the project on Aug. 15. DHHS is taking […]
UNC System campuses say they eliminated 59 positions and “realigned” 131 others in response to orders from the Board of Governors to curtail their DEI programs. Their reports left it far from clear, however, how many actual terminations resulted. In a number of cases, it appears that the primary changes were to job titles, descriptions […]
You can add the American Medical Association to the Federal Trade Commission, Congress and other groups voicing disquiet about the current state of the pharmacy benefits management sector. The AMA this week released an analysis of market concentration among PBMs that reiterated worries that the sector’s top heavy and vertically integrated. ““The call for increased […]
With the House likely to vote for the conference report on Wednesday, House Bill 10 and its expanded funding for private-school subsidies will soon be heading to the governor’s desk. A veto by Gov. Roy Cooper subsequent override votes in the House and Senate are likely, albeit perhaps not ahead of November’s general election. In […]
Sen. Berger’s post-session gaggle with reporters on Monday also provided the first opportunity for me to ask him about what he might’ve learned from his July trip to the Paris Summer Olympics. Not-long story much shorter: It’s a pain to get around the City of Lights, especially when there’s a big event like the Olympics […]
Senate leader Phil Berger says “there probably are some things that need to be done” on the legislative side of things to get the State Health Plan’s finances back in balance. But that for now remains an issue to address “down the road,” Berger told reporters on Monday. The day’s Senate session saw the chamber […]
The Senate conducted veto-override votes on Monday, in the process turning three bills into law and sending two more to the House for final action. Consecutive 27-17, party line votes completed the legislative journeys of House Bills 155, 556 and 690. With six senators absent (three from each party), the margin was just over the […]
Some in Congress are demanding information from Raleigh-based Advance Auto Parts and five competitors about their dealings with a Chinese company the lawmakers suspect is trying to evade U.S. tariffs. The bipartisan query comes from half a dozen U.S. House members and senators, led by the chair and ranking member of the House Select Committee on […]
Court officials have scheduled a Sept. 30 hearing in Wake County Superior Court on Greensboro quarterback Faizon Brandon’s request for an injunction to block enforcement of the state’s ban on name, image and likeness deals for high school athletes. Presuming it happens, the hearing would occur the day before the public comment period opens on a […]
Celeste Gracia/WUNC Radio A constant stream of 18-wheeler trucks file into the Sampson County landfill, located next to a small, historically-Black community named Snow Hill. The front of the facility is adorned with lush landscaping. From afar, it looks like a large hill of dirt. “I call it a toxic dump, but most people here […]
Makiya Seminera/The Associated Press North Carolina’s Republican House and Senate leaders said Friday that they have agreed with each other on a supplemental spending proposal that includes hundreds of millions of dollars to eliminate the state’s waitlist for private school vouchers. The new proposal includes funding for Medicaid, broadband access and the implementation of a […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press A question over whether presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name will appear on North Carolina ballots has reached the state Supreme Court. Friday evening, the North Carolina Board of Elections appealed the Court of Appeals’ order issued Friday morning to reprint all ballots without Kennedy’s name. In the meantime, with […]
Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC North Carolina public schools showed progress on school accountability measures during the 2023-24 school year, according to new data released by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) on Wednesday. In North Carolina, school grades are based on each school’s achievement score, weighted 80%, and on students’ academic growth, weighted 20%. Education […]
Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Just over a year ago, the city of Wilmington completed its purchase of a downtown campus that once belonged to a pharmaceutical firm. Since then, more than 300 city employees have moved into the former PPD-headquarters-turned-Thermo-Fisher-building even as officials work to upfit the new space and sell and lease the city offices left […]
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