Ray Gronberg
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Hall and mini-budgets
Speaker Hall, by the way, believes the House and Senate will get a budget done eventually and isn’t too worried...
why North Carolina’s budget Is late (again): no deadline, no referee, real disagreements
Writing a state-affairs newsletter and being a disc jockey are jobs that have more in common than most may think....
House tries again to loosen credit-union restrictions
House members before leaving for their summer break wrote their approach to a partial deregulation of North Carolina-chartered credit unions...
Tillis drops re-election bid
North Carolina is going to have a wide-open U.S. Senate race in 2026. Incumbent Sen. Thom Tillis has announced that...
Farm Act advances without raw milk, liability provisions; key land use rules still in play
Plenty of bills cleared the House and Senate before members left town on Thursday for the summer break, but some...
Legislators finish work on Charlotte transit bill
Also awaiting Gov. Josh Stein’s attention is House Bill 948, the bill that would authorize a Mecklenburg County sales-tax referendum to...
PBM bill landing on Stein’s desk
After some false starts in previous sessions, the House and Senate have finally come to an agreement on how to...
NC lawmakers approve Helene aid bill, drop business grants and spark criticism
House and Senate members on Thursday sent a new Helene-recovery bill to Gov. Josh Stein, but its compromise language dropped a House-proposed...
Senate tinkers with transit bill
Senators voted 42-4 Wednesday in favor of a bill that would give Mecklenburg County permission to hold a referendum on...
NC House kills shrimp-trawling ban after public pushback
The shrimp-trawl ban is dead. Rep. Keith Kidwell, R-Beaufort, said the result of a lengthy House Republican caucus on Wednesday afternoon...
House forces conference on Helene package
The House has declined to go along with the Senates changes to the latest Hurricane Helene relief package and instead...
Software company picks Raleigh for new office
A Los Angeles-based software company that aims to help construction companies complete projects faster plans to establish a third hub...
Duke gets DOE dispensation to meet heat wave
It’s hot outside — Mojave hot — and electricity providers up and down the East Coast are having to work hard to...
