One of the bills awaiting Gov. Josh Stein’s signature after June’s legislative bonanza includes a provision that would bar cities and counties from restricting the sale of animals by licensed pet shops. The provision got tacked on the otherwise-unrelated House Bill 96 on June 19 by the Senate’s Judiciary committee. The rest of the bill addresses the removal […]
North Carolina’s business recruiters have notched two more wins, which between them are promising to bring 1,306 new jobs to Rowan and Rutherford counties. The larger of the two by far involves Jabil Inc., a Florida-based Fortune 500 company that says it’s “one of the leading [third-party] providers of manufacturing services and solutions worldwide.” It announced earlier this […]
Speaker Hall, by the way, believes the House and Senate will get a budget done eventually and isn’t too worried about the current state of the talks. That doesn’t mean, however, that the road to a deal will be as straight as a desert highway. Both chambers have proposed so-called “mini budgets” that allocate monetary […]
Writing a state-affairs newsletter and being a disc jockey are jobs that have more in common than most may think. Of relevance for today: Both do requests, especially when the request comes from the boss. The ask for today is an explain-it-like-I’m-5 for why the General Assembly can’t pass a budget on time. Here goes. By “on […]
