Ray Gronberg
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An incentives reset for Apple?
A portion of the legislature’s latest mini-budget could give Apple more time to deliver on the promises it made in...
Fuel-delivery contract
The House government-efficiency committee’s first hearing probed briefly into a new, statewide fuel-delivery contract that will pay out an estimated...
Berger bucks
Senate leader Phil Berger has raised 71 times as much money as his GOP primary challenger so far in in...
Jones and Cooper
House Majority Leader Jones, by the way, opened Wednesday’s hearing with another blast at former Gov. Roy Cooper, who’s now...
Helene oversight
Legislators, Gov. Josh Stein’s aides and local leaders in western North Carolina all are asking themselves, and each other, whether...
Boliek: N.C. needs better disaster-aid oversight
North Carolina’s sufficiently disaster-prone that it needs to install some permanent oversight mechanisms to monitor the deployment and uses of...
House GOP view on children’s hospital
House Republicans want to claw back all the money legislators have already appropriated for the proposed children’s hospital UNC Health...
Economic development via mini-budgets
A series of Senate “mini-budget” bills includes money for several economic development deals, some announced, some not. House Bill 358...
Children’s hospital figures in Senate-House standoff
Senators have tried a move to forestall impending Medicaid reimbursement-rate cuts to the funding of the proposed children’s hospital that...
Regulatory reform bill passes in Senate
Senators voted 31-17 on Monday to pass a regulatory reform bill that will exempt UNC System institutions from local zoning...
A Project Kitty Hawk progress report
Project Kitty Hawk has spent $74.1 million of the $97 million the General Assembly gave it back in 2021 to...
Senate releases draft of “Iryna’s Law”
The Senate’s promised rewrite of the state’s laws regarding bail would eliminate the ability of judges and magistrates to release...
AI at UNC
UNC System President Peter Hans intends to hire a new “chief AI officer” as part of a broader strategy to...