Education The cost of athletics, high school edition As long as coach Bill Belichick’s Tar Heels football team is beating only the likes of UNC Charlotte, there’s going...
Health Care Treasurer’s office, CVS Caremark end their dispute Peace has broken out between State Treasurer Brad Briner’s office and CVS Caremark. On Tuesday, the treasurer’s office announced the...
Education School choice It’s fair to say the leaders of the General Assembly pride themselves on fostering school choice across North Carolina, via...
Local Gas and nukes Recent Tribs have been all energy (policy), all the time, but we haven’t quite exhausted the subject. The Federal Energy...
Budget & Taxes Reg reform bill takes effect Gov. Josh Stein let this year’s regulatory reform omnibus, House Bill 926, become law without his signature. So its removal...
Health Care Duke and Aetna iron out their differences To the surprise of few, one suspects, Duke Health and Aetna have ended their quarrel and agreed to a new...
Local Gas pipelines routing revised Federal regulators say the revised, shorter routing of the proposed MVP Southgate gas pipeline should have “fewer environmental effects” than...
Local Reactions roll in on Duke Energy plan Environmental advocates in North Carolina slammed Duke Energy’s long-term vision for power generation, as disclosed this week in a regulatory...
Local Duke nuclear energy update Senate Bill 266’s rework of North Carolina’s carbon-reduction targets was partly intended to buy time for Duke Energy to develop...
Education WFU president stepping down next summer Wake Forest University President Susan Wente will leave her job on June 30, the end of her fifth year in...
Local Court of Appeals wades into messy disputes Wednesday was also a day for the N.C. Court of Appeals to issue opinions. Separate three-judge panels handed down rulings...
Education Poe Hall at NC State update NC State has sued Monsanto and a Pfizer subsidiary over the PCB contamination of Poe Hall, seeking to shield itself...
Local Duke Energy’s Carolinas Resource Plan Duke Energy’s latest Carolinas Resource Plan posits retaining three of the utility’s coal-fired power plants for two to four years...
Health Care Fitch calls Duke Health’s margins “compressed” There’s a bit more to say about Duke Health and its finances, given the heat State Treasurer Brad Briner’s office...
Local Trouble in Rocky Mount Rocky Mount’s government announced last week that “for over two years, the city has spent millions more each month than it...