Ray Gronberg
Recent Stories
North Carolina’s higher education sector is getting a major shakeup
North Carolina’s higher education sector is getting a major shakeup, as Alamance County’s Elon University and Charlotte’s Queens University are...
UNC campuses, taxed
UNC System leaders are poised to take nearly $6.9 million from UNC Chapel Hill’s state-supplied revenue and redistribute the money...
Feds reopen part of the Blue Ridge Parkway
National Park Service officials announced Monday that they’ve reopened a 26.7-mile portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway that runs north...
Stein Helene package seeks money for business
Gov. Josh Stein wants Congress to allot another $13.5 billion to hurricane recovery in North Carolina, and the Trump administration...
UNC tuitions
UNC System President Peter Hans and his team are signaling a willingness to at least consider requests from the state’s...
Change at the top of NCDOT
North Carolina’s Department of Transportation is getting a new leader as of Oct. 1. State Transportation Secretary Joey Hopkins —...
LGC docks revenue for 11 towns
Local Government Commission members have given State Treasurer Brad Briner the OK to withhold a portion of state-shared sales-tax money...
New State Auditor report
State Auditor Dave Boliek’s office has released another of its new “rapid response” reports, this time addressing the Charlotte City...
Fitch and charter schools
Critics of North Carolina’s expansion of charter schools have long fretted about what they see as soft state oversight, given...
Magistrate reform
Details remain pending, but House and Senate leaders say they’re going to propose legislation next week to address the issues...
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...
