Ray Gronberg
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Two incumbents trail in Charlotte council races
A low-turnout September primary is poised to turn a pair of Charlotte City Council incumbents out of office. Unofficial results...
Budd not happy with Helene aid backup
Our friends at McClatchy report that North Carolina U.S. Sen. Ted Budd is increasingly unhappy with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary...
New FIRE campus-speech rankings released
UNC Chapel Hill improved its standing in the latest FIRE campus-free-speech rankings, but the group’s surveys indicate that students are...
Courthouse politics
Rural-county courthouse-crowd politics. That appears the ultimate explanation for why Senate leader Phil Berger and other Republicans in Rockingham County...
Wolfspeed gets OK to proceed with Ch. 11 plan
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved Wolfspeed’s Chapter 11 reorganization, court records and the company say. Wolfspeed CEO Robert Feurle...
Indiana and Duke Energy
Interesting news from Indiana, where Gov. Mike Braun has signaled interest in squeezing the profits of public utilities like Duke...
More on foreign-trained docs
My mailbag has brought forth a bit more commentary about House Bill 67, the omnibus healthcare workforce bill that among...
Berger rift
A group of coastal Republicans has demanded Senate leader Phil Berger’s exclusion from “any and all support from” the party,...
Battleship takes hit from an audit
State Auditor Dave Boliek’s staff says its latest audit of the USS North Carolina Battleship Commission’s finances found a lack...
Farm workers debate
There’s a push on to lower the mandatory wage rates farmers have to pay foreigners who avail themselves of the...
Paging Dr. Campbell
Before its summer break, the General Assembly passed and Gov. Josh Stein signed a bill that made it easier for...
Free speech and UNC Chapel Hill
UNC Chapel Hill already has the lowest standing of any of North Carolina’s state universities in the annual FIRE College Free...
Hanig runs for Congress
State Sen. Bobby Hanig, R-Currituck, says he’s going to run for Congress, which ensures that the Senate’s GOP caucus will...
