Education Charter advocates ponder school-choice patterns About 25% of North Carolina’s K-12 school children attend a charter, private or home school, but the pattern of choice...
Education UNC schools slip in FIRE free-speech rankings Five UNC System universities, including both its flagships, lost ground in the updated campus-free-speech rankings issued by the Philadelphia-based Foundation...
Local Splitting biz property in divorce: Call an accountant A recent N.C. Supreme Court decision portends big changes in how business property gets parceled out when a couple divorces,...
Economic Development ESPN: Nashville’s MLB bid is lacking Amid all the talk about Raleigh’s pursuit of a Major League Baseball team, there’s been an assumption that Nashville, Tennessee,...
Budget & Taxes Lottery and online games: Big growth, low return The N.C. Education Lottery’s fastest-growing new offerings also generate the lowest rate of return for North Carolina’s schools, State Auditor...
Local NY on the NC Whenever I visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, I always get a kick out of their...
Budget & Taxes Major cities to get more LGC scrutiny Touting it as a major shift, State Treasurer Brad Briner and his aides say they’re going to subject North Carolina’s...
Education K-12 test scores continue post-pandemic rise Students in North Carolina’s K-12 public schools are doing better on their end-of-grade tests, but across the state only 59.2%...
Elections Berger Jr. not seeking re-election to Supreme Court North Carolina’s Supreme Court is assured of getting at least one new justice at the end of the 2028 election...
Economic Development JetZero lines up more money JetZero says it’s lined up $100 million in loans that will help pay for “tooling and production facilities” at the...
Health Care Lawsuit targets nursing “collaborative practice” payments North Carolina’s system of requiring some advanced-practice nurses to pay physicians for the right to ply their trade is the...
Budget & Taxes Boliek has questions for N.C. Housing Finance State Auditor Dave Boliek says the Local Government Commission should more closely scrutinize the borrowing requests it fields from the...
Health Care ECU Health cleared to borrow $700M Local Government Commission members have given ECU Health permission to borrow up to $700 million to refinance existing debts and...
Elections Buckhout caught in Kalshi dragnet GOP First Congressional District nominee Laurie Buckhout has been suspended from the online prediction market Kalshi for three years, apparently...
Education Teachers and business Over at Business North Carolina, former stone-quarry executive Tom Oxholm laments that the state’s business leaders aren’t more involved in...
