Ray Gronberg
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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...
Courthouse politics
Rural-county courthouse-crowd politics. That appears the ultimate explanation for why Senate leader Phil Berger and other Republicans in Rockingham County...
Wolfspeed gets OK to proceed with Ch. 11 plan
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved Wolfspeed’s Chapter 11 reorganization, court records and the company say. Wolfspeed CEO Robert Feurle...
Indiana and Duke Energy
Interesting news from Indiana, where Gov. Mike Braun has signaled interest in squeezing the profits of public utilities like Duke...
More on foreign-trained docs
My mailbag has brought forth a bit more commentary about House Bill 67, the omnibus healthcare workforce bill that among...
Berger rift
A group of coastal Republicans has demanded Senate leader Phil Berger’s exclusion from “any and all support from” the party,...
Battleship takes hit from an audit
State Auditor Dave Boliek’s staff says its latest audit of the USS North Carolina Battleship Commission’s finances found a lack...
Farm workers debate
There’s a push on to lower the mandatory wage rates farmers have to pay foreigners who avail themselves of the...
