House members have voted 102-6 in favor of giving Mecklenburg County permission to call a referendum on raising the local-option sales tax rate by 1 cent to finance transit and road construction. Wednesday’s second-reading vote set the stage for House Bill 948 to clear the chamber and head to the Senate snext Tuesday. Legislative analysts estimate that the levy, […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio When Mecklenburg County signed a contract with The Peebles Corporation to redevelop the former Brooklyn neighborhood, the firm and its founder were making headlines for lawsuits and delayed projects. Michael Swerdlow is one of Florida’s biggest developers. Now in his early 80s, he’s been building across the state and the nation since […]
Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News A federal proposal to impose a work requirement on Medicaid recipients could have far-reaching consequences for North Carolinians who rely on the government-funded health insurance program. The Republican-backed measure in Congress, which was part of the budget reconciliation bill passed last month by the U.S. House of Representatives, along with legislation […]
Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Legislation to expand fireworks sales in North Carolina fizzled out in a state House committee Tuesday, potentially dooming the latest effort to allow bigger explosives here. North Carolina limits the sale of fireworks to smaller devices like sparklers. Larger fireworks that shoot into the air aren’t legal, outside of public displays operated […]
Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning The decades long conflict between the city and county over utility extensions, annexation and high-density development may have come to an end on Monday with decisions by the two governing boards to endorse a compromise in the state Legislature. The Henderson County Board of Commissioners and the Hendersonville City Council both formally […]
Mallory Shelbourne/USNI News President Donald Trump tapped Adm. Daryl Caudle to serve as the next chief of naval operations, nearly four months after the removal of Adm. Lisa Franchetti. The Senate Armed Services Committee received the nomination Tuesday, according to a Congressional notification. Caudle, who is currently the head of U.S. Fleet Forces in Norfolk, […]
Dave Levinthal/Fortune Rep. Tim Moore (R-N.C.) appears to have missed a required disclosure deadline under a federal transparency law, failing to properly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of personal stock purchases he made immediately before or after President Donald Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” tariff declaration, according to congressional financial records reviewed by […]
David A. Lieb/The Associated Press Louisiana is poised to hike taxes on sports betting to pump more than $24 million into athletic departments at the state’s most prominent public universities. Legislation pending before Gov. Jeff Landry would make Louisiana the first state to raise taxes to fund college sports since a judge approved a landmark […]
John Staton/Wilmington StarNews A gritty, soapy thriller of a TV series whose locations showcase Wilmington will soon be seen by viewers worldwide. “The Waterfront,” which shot in and around Wilmington and Southport in 2024, will drop all eight episodes of its first season on Netflix at 3 a.m. Thursday, June 19. Reviews of “The Waterfront” […]
Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise An initiative launched nine months ago to increase pay for Guilford County Sheriff’s Office deputies and detention officers to boost recruitment to fill job vacancies hasn’t worked out as county officials hoped. Now county leaders are facing a nearly $4 million funding gap nearing the end of the current […]
Port City Daily After a successful three weekends launching a pilot program in February, the Brooklyn Arts District Collective is approaching city council by August about the permanency of a social district. The proposal to allow the district to launch every Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. will be considered Aug. 19, city spokesperson Dylan […]
House Speaker Destin Hall says a $450 million special appropriation for the JetZero project at Piedmont Triad International Airport is “something that we need to get done,” even if the precise way of handling it is still a bit up in the air. “Could be in the budget, could be in a separate bill, I don’t […]
Agriculture committee Democrats like Sens. Julie Mayfield of Buncombe County and Lisa Grafstein of Wake County sat quietly through the shrimp debate, obviously bemused by the public intra-Republican discord. Normal service, however, resumed in the afternoon when Rabon as Rules chair quashed Senate Democratic Leader Sydney Batch’s move to use a rare discharge petition to […]
An all-out crustacean and fish fight broke out Tuesday in the Senate Agriculture committee, thanks to a move by some of the chamber’s Republicans to ban shrimp trawling anywhere inside a half mile of North Carolina’s Atlantic shoreline. Sen. Bill Rabon, R-Brunswick, and other proponents argue the move will align North Carolina’s trawling regulations with those of […]
Senate Democratic Leader Sydney Batch came to her current post believing her caucus needs “to be more bullish” and aggressive in its approach to dealing with the chamber’s GOP supermajority. It’s looking like we’re about to see just what that means. On Monday, Batch’s office announced that Senate Democrats will launch a discharge petition to […]
