Elections Follow The Money: N.C. Senate District 1 Once it became clear that they’d be running against a fellow incumbent senator in the GOP primary, both Sens. Bob...
Budget & Taxes UNC’s latest gift: A private island Another interesting tidbit from the Council of State’s agenda: UNC Chapel Hill will soon be the proud new owner of...
Budget & Taxes Farkas wants a train to Greenville If you live in Greenville or other parts of Eastern North Carolina and want to hop on a train, you...
Elections Campaign Spotlight: N.C. House District 6 Just a few miles from the VinFast site, fast-growing Harnett County will be getting its second N.C. House member this...
Budget & Taxes Reives cites bipartisanship in automaker win House Democratic Leader Robert Reives, D-Chatham, argues that Tuesday’s announcement that Vietnamese automaker VinFast will build electric SUVs in his...
Health Care Could the SAVE Act get paired with Medicaid expansion? Legislators on the study committee considering Medicaid expansion spent nearly four hours Tuesday hearing about a completely different piece of...
Elections Poll Watch: GOP Senate, judicial primaries U.S. Rep. Ted Budd’s campaign on Monday touted a new poll commissioned by the conservative N.C. Values Coalition. It’s got...
Budget & Taxes Few applications so far for N.C. broadband funding Nearly two months into the application period for $350 million in state broadband infrastructure grants, the N.C. Department of Information...
Elections Ad Watch: 13th District N.C. Sen. Wiley Nickel, D-Wake, is out with one of the first TV ads in the crowded 13th District congressional...
Education Budd joins Adams’ 2021 HBCU legislation Nearly a year after U.S. Rep. Alma Adams introduced legislation to create a grant program to update HBCU campuses, two...
Elections PAC hits McCrory with $1 million ad campaign Another national PAC is coming after former Gov. Pat McCrory with new attack ads. An ad that surfaced Wednesday from...
Budget & Taxes Audit faults Golden LEAF for oversight of COVID business loans Speed was key in the spring of 2020 when state leaders set up a “Rapid Recovery” loan program to help...
Elections Follow The Money: Supreme Court primary While the two races for N.C. Supreme Court will be hotly contested this year, only one has a primary.