Ray Gronberg
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Fiscal Research sees a cloudy economic picture
Legislative staffers are expecting pretty much all the state’s key economic indicators to slow in fiscal 2026-27 — just in time...
Boom finds AI customer for its engine tech
The jet engines Boom Supersonic’s designing for the airliners it wants to build in Greensboro may wind up powering data...
Hall sets up House examination of property taxes
House Speaker Destin Hall has formed a special committee to examine and counter the rise in local-government property taxes. Reps....
Tillis: Done with elective office
Just in case leaving the U.S. Senate at the end of his current term isn’t definitive enough, Sen. Thom Tillis...
Tillis: Highlight the business case for renewables
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, of course, was on hand for Monday’s Clean Energy Champions luncheon not so much to talk...
Lumbee recognition in pending defense bill
U.S. House members are going to try to pass the long-awaited Lumbee recognition bill by incorporating it into an omnibus...
Farmers, biz groups complete Clean Energy awards
Another of the Clean Energy Champions awards announced Monday went to Martin County farmers Ken and Johna Gurganus, in part...
Hall, Gable honored for power-transmission bill
State Reps. Kyle Hall and Wyatt Gable received two of the “Clean Energy Champions” awards handed out Monday by Conservatives...
The House primary list lengthens
Two Democrats who’ve sometimes been part of House Speaker Destin Hall’s “working supermajority” face party primaries in the spring. Charlotte...
GOP Senate primary slate shapes up
Phil Berger and Sam Page aren’t going to have the only hot Republican primary for a state Senate seat in...
Nuclear Energy Update
The Trump administration wants to rescind existing regulations that asked the would-be operators of new nuclear facilities to explain how their design...
USDOJ opposing Duke Energy antitrust appeal
Trump administration officials are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to shelve Duke Energy’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that went...
Briner sees too much volatility in crypto market
State Treasurer Brad Briner and his team are keeping an eye on the digital-assets market, but Briner doesn’t yet see...
