Whenever I visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, I always get a kick out of their admission pricing. It’s $30 for most tourists, but if you’re a card-carrying New York State resident, you get a discount. As in, pay what you want, so long as you pay at least something. Turns […]
Touting it as a major shift, State Treasurer Brad Briner and his aides say they’re going to subject North Carolina’s largest cities to the same level of financial oversight as its smaller ones. “Financial concerns should be taken seriously regardless of the size of the local government,” Briner says. They heralded the move by adding […]
Students in North Carolina’s K-12 public schools are doing better on their end-of-grade tests, but across the state only 59.2% tested on grade level in the 2025-26 academic year. That’s 4.2 percentage points better than the year before, and 7.8 points better than the pandemic year of 2021-22, the Department of Public Instruction says. DPI […]
North Carolina’s Supreme Court is assured of getting at least one new justice at the end of the 2028 election cycle, with Justice Phil Berger Jr. announcing that he’s not going to seek re-election to his current seat. The Hillsborough resident’s Twitter posting left the door open to running for some other office. “I am […]
JetZero says it’s lined up $100 million in loans that will help pay for “tooling and production facilities” at the airliner factory it’s building at Piedmont Triad International Airport. The money comes from a group of lenders led by the Bay Area’s Pinegrove Venture Partners. Also involved are Pinegrove backers Brookfield, HRTG and Silicon Valley […]
North Carolina’s system of requiring some advanced-practice nurses to pay physicians for the right to ply their trade is the target of a lawsuit filed by the owner of a Fuquay-Varina menopause-treatment clinic. Jamie Gallagher and her lawyers say she pays $16,500 to a doctor for the “collaborative practice agreement” that under state regulation enables […]
State Auditor Dave Boliek says the Local Government Commission should more closely scrutinize the borrowing requests it fields from the N.C. Housing Finance Agency. Boliek briefly held up but ultimately joined other commissioners in supporting the agency’s latest request, permitting it to issue up to $1.25 billion in revenue bonds to finance its home-ownership programs. […]
Local Government Commission members have given ECU Health permission to borrow up to $700 million to refinance existing debts and add to its facilities. ECU Health intends to use $200 million from the impending bond sales to, among other things, “expand and equip” the fifth and sixth floors of its cancer center’s Eddie and Jo […]
GOP First Congressional District nominee Laurie Buckhout has been suspended from the online prediction market Kalshi for three years, apparently for betting on her own campaign. The New York City market also says its settlement with Buckhout also includes a $2,590 financial penalty. The agreement “established that Buckhout purchased less than $1,000 worth of contracts […]
Over at Business North Carolina, former stone-quarry executive Tom Oxholm laments that the state’s business leaders aren’t more involved in pressing legislators for better funding of the public K-12 schools. His criticism of state policy takes in the state’s teacher-pay scale, newly adjusted in the fiscal 2026-27 budget to have a floor on the state […]
WakeMed is losing two of its key executives even as the debate about its planned merger with Atrium Health continues. Thomas Gough, WakeMed’s COO, is leaving for a similar post with Florida-based Baptist Health. He starts there on Sept. 14. Dr. Seth Brody, previously WakeMed’s chief physician executive, is now the chief medical growth officer […]
A couple of Down East Republicans are touting state House’s interest in passing restrictions on data-center development, even though the bill’s stalled in the Senate and its fate in the remainder of this session is far from clear. Rep. Charlie Miller and John Lowery, who are from Brunswick and Robeson counties respectively, tweeted their support […]
Former North Carolina U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry may think prediction markets like Kalshi aren’t handling sports bets in the traditional sense, but a panel of West Coast judges appointed by President Trump disagrees. Ruling on Friday, Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ryan Nelson and two of his colleagues rejected Kalshi’s argument that federal […]
A big part of downtown Raleigh’s developmental success story is the massive expansion of housing there, which business leaders say is poised to continue. Since 2015, developers have added 6,923 housing units to downtown’s inventory. Another 765 are under construction, and a further 5,922 are in the pipeline of “planned or proposed” projects, the Downtown […]
Fort Bragg is one of the five “initial locations” in line to get a nuclear “microreactor” in the next couple of years to help power its operations, the U.S. Army says. The choice is an outgrowth of what the Army calls the Janus Program, and comes also with the selection of California-based Antares Nuclear to […]
