Ray Gronberg
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House budget forbids tolling of U.S. 1
The House budget bill will ban the N.C. Department of Transportation from spending state money to make any part of...
Buncombe jail in arrears to former inmates
Buncombe County jail inmates haven’t always gotten back from the county Sheriff’s Office the money they arrived with, or the...
NC House unveils $60M Hurricane Helene business relief plan
House leaders’ latest Hurricane Helene relief bill includes a $60 million set-aside to establish and fund a “business recovery” grant program within...
Boliek: I’m going to investigate Charlotte
State Auditor Dave Boliek has notified Charlotte officials that his office is going to investigate its rumored “settlement” with Charlotte-Mecklenburg...
UNC and ECU discord threatens NC Care
Back in 2023, legislative leaders touted their desire to use part of the state’s Medicaid-expansion bonus to fund a new...
House Republicans question $2B children’s hospital subsidy
House Republicans aren’t exactly sold on the idea of massively subsidizing UNC Health and Duke Health’s plan to build a...
The House budget, now fully rolled out
The full House budget emerged Monday afternoon, and with it the full scope of the chamber GOP caucus’ disagreements with the Senate’s...
Stein’s Helene request
Gov. Josh Stein has asked legislators to allot $845.2 million more to Hurricane Helene recovery, and to re-channel $45.6 million...
Duke’s ties with China questioned
The leaders of two U.S. House committees have urged Duke University to terminate its relationship with a partner campus in...
Berger optimistic about Charlotte transit bill
Neither the Senate nor the House has taken up their almost-parallel bills that would authorize another transit-tax referendum in Mecklenburg...
Bicameral disagreement
NCInnovation and the children’s hospital are not the only major budgetary and policy differences emerging between the Senate and House...
House, Senate split over NCInnovation funding and children’s hospital investment
It appears the Senate and the House have very different ideas about how to wind down the state’s involvement with NCInnovation —...
Helene and FEMA
The N.C. Leadership Conference’s remaining panel, with Rep. Eric Ager, D-Buncombe and Biltmore Farms Vice President Ben Teague, focused on Hurricane Helene’s...
