Ray Gronberg
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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...
Stein in Tokyo
Gov. Josh Stein and two of the state’s top business recruiters are in Tokyo this week for the latest Southeast...
Power places
Retail electricity prices in North Carolina have declined slightly over the past five years in inflation-adjusted terms, but not as...
High court settles Duke-Pinnacle MRI dispute
State Supreme Court justices have upheld a pair of lower-court decisions that gave a Pinnacle Health Services affiliate the right...
Distribution centers in Burlington and Greensboro
There have been a couple of major incentive deals announced in recent days, the larger of the two being one...
Redistricting complete
State Sen. Bobby Hanig, R-Currituck, says he’s going to continue running for the First District Congressional seat, following this week’s...
Legal aid
House members are pressing the N.C. State Bar to put tighter controls on which groups get funding from a grant...
Duke plans for a new world
Duke University officials warned faculty earlier this fall that the Medicaid cuts associated with the federal government’s “One Big Beautiful...
