The N.C. Department of Transportation isn’t going to treat a new Interstate 77 project in Charlotte differently from any other highway project local governments across the state ask it to take on. That means it’ll have to go through the prioritization process legislators and DOT formalized in the 2010s early in former Gov. Pat McCrory’s […]
It’s all well and good that the state House wants to legalize the sale of canned cocktails outside of ABC stores, but the Senate needs to get in the act too, the co-owner of a chain of beer and wine stores on the Outer Banks says. The Senate is advancing its own set of ABC […]
Legislators returning to Raleigh this week from their Memorial Day holiday will find a docket that includes an omnibus reform bill for the state’s K-12 schools. Senate Bill 1006 is scheduled to receive its first committee review on Wednesday. Its lead sponsor is Senate Majority Leader Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, who occupies a key swing […]
Inmate medical-care costs are busting the budgets of jails all around the state, thanks in no small part to low-bid service contracts, a new white paper for the N.C. Association of County Commissioners says. Surveys that boiled down to 35 of the state’s 100 counties found that many experienced cost overruns that in percentage terms […]
