Budget & Taxes Boliek reports a deficit — his own State Auditor Dave Boliek is one of North Carolina’s top watchdogs of local-government finances, but some of his targets might...
Health Care WakeMed: Future borrowing capacity too low WakeMed has told Wake County commissioners it can likely borrow only another $300 million to $400 million in the short...
Uncategorized Briner defends treatment of ECU Health The ink’s barely dry on the State Health Plan’s new preferred-provider system and it’s already drawing fire from Down East...
Economic Development Auditor: Landfill clean-up would take a century at current funding level North Carolina’s effort to clean up old landfills is so poorly funded that the Department of Environmental Quality hasn’t been...
Health Care Blue Cross regains State Health Plan contract Three years after losing it, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has won back the State Health Plan’s...
Health Care UNC Health, Novant make state’s “preferred provider” list State Health Plan managers say making UNC Health and Novant two of the plan’s three preferred care providers will have...
Economic Development Feeling the need, the need for speed … One of the changes CNBC made this year to its Top States for Business ranking system is the addition within...
Economic Development N.C. back to second in CNBC Top States for Business North Carolina has slipped out of the top spot in CNBC’s annual Top States for Business rankings, but only dropped...
Budget & Taxes Rocky Mount, audited again State Auditor Dave Boliek and his team have found plenty more to criticize Rocky Mount officials about, in a new...
Economic Development Work starts on gas line reaching into Rockingham County MVP Southgate’s backers have notified federal regulators that they’ve begun construction of their 31-mile gas pipeline, which will run from...
Health Care Health researchers criticize WakeMed/Atrium deal Brown University analysts have joined State Treasurer Brad Briner and the rest of the chorus that contends the proposed WakeMed/Atrium...
Budget & Taxes A win off the field for the Tar Heels and Wolfpack UNC Chapel Hill and NC State are the big winners from the budget’s reshuffle of the split of the proceeds...
Economic Development Stein signs reg-reform bill, touts benefits for housing Gov. Josh Stein has signed a bill he says will give North Carolina “another tool in the toolbox to build...
Budget & Taxes Budget upholds JetZero incentives payout plan The fiscal 2026-27 budget continues the state’s previously announced strategy for supplying up to $450 million in direct appropriations to...
Budget & Taxes Let the hunt begin: pork and the state budget Now that the state’s fiscal 2026-27 is out of the legislature and on Gov. Josh Stein’s desk, the search for...
