The Robesonian “At the heart of our work must always be our children. I want every student to be excited about coming to school — to know there is something waiting for them each day that sparks their curiosity, challenges them and helps them discover what they can become. Education should cultivate a lifelong love […]
Laura Douglass/The Southern Pines Pilot Housed in an unassuming building at the end of a road, one of the area’s most successful organizations is quietly making sure Moore County is a healthier place to live for everybody. Inside the doors of the Moore County Free & Charitable Clinic, medical staff and volunteers provide compassion with […]
April Laissle/WFDD Radio Landowners Tyler and Meghan Forrest said they wanted to conserve the property to ensure their son Luke and future generations could enjoy it. More than 100 acres of farm and forest land along Abbotts Creek in Davidson County are now permanently protected from development. Three Rivers Land Trust says a conservation easement […]
Jeremy Tanner/NEXSTAR A Wendy’s franchisee that operates 314 of the fast food company’s restaurants in 15 states announced Friday that it will be filing for bankruptcy. Meritage Hospitality Group, headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, announced in a news release that it was voluntarily filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a bid to, in part, “strengthen […]
North Carolina has struck a $590 million deal with Chemours and its corporate cousins to settle one of lawsuits spawned by the PFAS contamination of the southeast part of the state. Announced Thursday, the settlement includes $455 million in payments to the state spread over 15 years, and to some local governments in the region […]
About 25% of North Carolina’s K-12 school children attend a charter, private or home school, but the pattern of choice varies considerably across the state, a Colorado-based consultant says. In Northampton County, most kids don’t go to the county schools. As of 2024-25, about 56% go to one of the alternatives, according to figures Brian […]
Five UNC System universities, including both its flagships, lost ground in the updated campus-free-speech rankings issued by the Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. UNC Chapel Hill took the biggest hit, dropping 12 places (down to No. 31) in the rankings in part because FIRE gigged it over the administration-ordered takedown of a pro-Palestinian […]
A recent N.C. Supreme Court decision portends big changes in how business property gets parceled out when a couple divorces, says a forensic accountant who valued the law practice that’s at the center of the case. Justices in August unanimously ruled that the “personal goodwill” embedded in the value of the firm, Sneed LLC, isn’t […]
Amid all the talk about Raleigh’s pursuit of a Major League Baseball team, there’s been an assumption that Nashville, Tennessee, would have the inside track to any East Coast expansion franchise. Now, one of MLB’s top business partners questions whether that’s so — and says Raleigh is a “dark horse” candidate that could end up […]
The N.C. Education Lottery’s fastest-growing new offerings also generate the lowest rate of return for North Carolina’s schools, State Auditor Dave Boliek and his team say. Online “digital instant games” account for all the growth in lottery revenues from fiscal 2023-24 onwards, Boliek’s team says in a new performance audit. Just in fiscal 2024-25, they […]
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 […]
