Ray Gronberg
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Elizabeth City’s food bills, audited
State Auditor Dave Boliek’s office says Elizabeth City officials played “fast and loose” with procurement-card charges, mainly for food they...
Stein in Asia
Gov. Josh Stein’s trip to Japan last week for the annual Southeast United States/Japan conference also gave him a chance...
Health insurance
Not quite 11 months after the getting the General Assembly’s OK for the idea, the NC Chamber has rolled out...
N.C. repped in the World Series
The Los Angeles Dodgers are once again the champions of baseball, by virtue of defeating the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4...
Tillis floats a banking bill
North Carolina U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis is circulating a “discussion draft” of a bill that would bar large banks and...
Brockman update
Former Rep. Cecil Brockman’s time in the General Assembly has ended. From jail, the High Point Democrat turned in his...
Challenging a dinosaur’s ID
Thursday’s most-fun news came from the governor’s office, the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences and NC State, which says one of...
Senators, ships and a Campbell prof
North Carolina’s resident maritime-history expert, Campbell University professor Sal Mercogliano, urged members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee to get behind...
Pension talks
The unfunded liability of the primary retirement fund for state employees rose to about $12 billion by the end of...
Paying for roads
The fact that so much of the revenue the Division of Motor Vehicles brings in goes to financing the work...
NC FREE’s rankings
The latest N.C. FreeEnterprise Foundation legislative scorecard is out, and if you’ve seen Republicans tweeting this week about their showing...
A trophy for Henderson County
Recruiters have used a $6.1 million package of state and local incentives to convince a Michigan-based car-parts market to build...
Cash and credit unions
Advocates for the state’s credit unions are speaking up in favor of a new bill in Congress that would loosen...