Ray Gronberg
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State Health Plan approves flat premiums for 2024
The Treasury Department says it has saved $1.8 billion in the last five years in negotiating new contracts and cutting...
Raises are coming for state employees and teachers
Lawmakers are getting closer to a state budget that would provide for undetermined raises for state employees and teachers.
School calendar dispute still unresolved
Give local school districts more flexibility to start classes in early or mid-August?
Working group to discuss NCInnovation funding
House Speaker Tim Moore says he’s assigned a work group in his chamber to work through the issues associated with...
UNC Chapel Hill’s free-tuition proposal
Two and a half weeks after their counterparts at Duke University stepped up, UNC Chapel Hill’s leaders announced their latest...
Familiar faces joining university trustee boards
Banker Hugh McColl Jr. and lobbyist David Powers are likely the most prominent names on the list of people the...
Rollback of some environmental regulations
H462 had caught my eye earlier in the session, as it calls for the rollback of some environmental regulations pertaining...
Senate drops idea of broadening powers of Community Colleges president
Senate leaders appear unwilling to give incoming N.C. Community Colleges President Jeff Cox any of the expanded powers they contemplated...
House moves Blue Cross, credit union, PBM bills
With crossover looming just a week away, the scramble to get bills through at least one chamber of the General...
County group objects to charter omnibus
The N.C. Association of County Commissioners says its members don’t want authority to allot capital funding to charter schools and...
Senate mulls antitrust exemption for UNC Health
Senators are weighing a rewrite of the basic governance rules for the UNC Health System that will give it an...
Blue Cross bill starts moving toward a vote
Legislation giving Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina permission to transfer assets to a new nonprofit holding company...
Senate bill proposes restrictions on microchipping humans
Media reports suggest at least 11 states have banned employers from forcing their workers to get microchipped. A bill filed...
