Ray Gronberg
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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...
More Helene money heads west
U.S. Sen. Ted Budd and Gov. Josh Stein’s offices are reporting progress in getting more federal disaster-recovery aid out the...
Chamber opposes military right-to-repair reforms
The NC Chamber and other business groups are opposing pending congressional moves to bolster the ability of the country’s soldiers,...
Win-lose at UNC
UNC’s Board of Governors has agreed to take money from UNC Chapel Hill and three of the system’s smallest campuses...
Court says DOT immune to accident claim
A N.C. Court of Appeals panel has rejected trucking company C.R. England’s attempt to get the N.C. Department of Transportation...
UNC enrollment tops quarter-million mark
Enrollment across the UNC System’s universities hit a record high this fall, with preliminary numbers showing a collective 3.4% growth...
