Education Community colleges’ Boost With help from a $35.6 million foundation grant, N.C. Community Colleges leaders are launching an effort they think will help...
Local Toyota factory ready to start deliveries Toyota’s $13.9 billion battery factory near Liberty will start shipping product in April, company CFO Yoichi Miyazaki said Wednesday as...
Budget & Taxes House refines its latest Helene bill State House leaders have come up with an initial plan for spending the additional $500 million they want to allot...
Local A bacon, egg and cheese to go, please When I go home to Los Angeles, one of the very first things I do is go to In-N-Out for...
Local Herding senators Judging from Tuesday morning, it’s easier to herd cats than to herd senators. Every biennium, legislative staff have to refresh...
Budget & Taxes Healthcare costs, mandates in the crosshairs I was hanging out for the GOP caucus photo because I wanted to talk to Sen. Jim Burgin, R-Harnett, who’s...
Local More bad luck for Henderson County Sen. Tim Moffitt, R-Henderson, reports that his county’s already hurricane-battered agriculture sector took another blow on Jan. 31 when Apple...
Local Another Helene relief bill in the works House members are preparing what would become the fourth hurricane-relief bill legislators have considered since Hurricane Helene laid waste to...
Local Stein’s hurricane request Gov. Josh Stein asked legislators to release $1.1 billion from the state’s reserves to fund an assortment of hurricane-relief efforts...
Local NC Chamber staying neutral in tariff battle The NC Chamber isn’t joining its national counterpart in condemning the federal government’s prospective deployment of new tariffs against Canada,...
Local Trade war with Canada The weekend’s other big news, of course, was President Trump’s declaration of economic warfare against Canada and Mexico. Trump invoked...
Budget & Taxes Bills seek to restore local downzoning powers As Senate leader Phil Berger expected, state House and Senate members have filed multiple bills that seek to undo in...
Local Hurricane relief The N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency needs $217 million more from the General Assembly to finish the job of...
Local Stein aides warn of federal-aid tangles out west Thursday’s hearing also gave the oversight subcommittee, the senators on it especially, its first chance to hear from Gov. Josh...
Local Tragedy at Reagan National Like many of you, I’m interested to see what investigators ultimately determine as the cause of Wednesday night’s mid-air collision...