Ray Gronberg
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Duke obtained more pollution waivers before storms
Duke Energy sought and received the U.S. Department of Energy’s permission to break air-pollution limits if necessary during the recent...
Small reactors lack economies of scale, legislators hear
When it comes to building nuclear reactors, a consultant’s advice to legislators is easily summarized: Go big or go home....
Feds finish audit of CATS security process
Federal officials have given Charlotte Area Transit System a month to remedy 18 problems they identified in a review of...
School vouchers: More used in blue counties
Two UNC Charlotte professors have published a study that suggests K-12 school vouchers aren’t as heavily used in the places...
State-pension investment returns improve
North Carolina’s public retirement-system investments earned an estimated 13.3% return in calendar 2025, just under the average for well-stocked peer...
Wolfspeed gets feds’ OK for Japanese investor
Durham-based Wolfspeed says federal regulators have given permission for a Japanese company to take an equity stake in the chipmaker....
State pension fund sets request for legislative support
Trustees of the state’s largest public-employee pension plan have confirmed that they’ll ask legislators for a 2026-27 employer contribution equivalent...
Insurance Dept. sees no fraud in Rockingham Co. dispute
North Carolina’s Department of Insurance closed the books on a complaintalleging that Rockingham County officials illegally asked the county’s insurance...
State Health Plan rolls out first “preferred providers”
State Health Plan trustees have approved “preferred provider” contracts with the clinic networks of UNC Health and two other groups,...
Tillis, Budd and Noem
The hold-ups of federal Hurricane Helene recovery subsidies are figuring in U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis’ public condemnations of U.S. Homeland...
Info about colleges’ NIL program hard to come by
UNC System schools are mostly sticking to the position that the details of the name, image and likeness programs they...
WSSU only UNC school holding out against tuition increase
Only one of the UNC System’s 16 universities — Winston-Salem State — wants to continue holding the line on in-state...
Federal gag order prompts House Oversight delay
State House leaders have postponed a Thursday oversight hearing they’d scheduled to discuss the security situation on Charlotte’s transit system...
